About Jennifer
Jennifer Garland is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. She works with individuals facing grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, and the lasting effects of trauma and abuse. Her voice is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at parents and adults who need practical direction.
With 17 years of experience, Jennifer draws on a strength-based outlook. She looks for skills a person already has and builds from there.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's situation, not a single scripted plan. Her practice blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with client-centered and attachment-focused ways of working. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, name emotional needs, and try different ways of reacting to others.
Conversations include checking what has helped before and trying small, manageable changes. Jennifer has worked extensively with people who survived childhood abuse and with those navigating adoption, foster care, or attachment concerns. She also supports people dealing with addiction, eating-related issues, and complicated family or blended-family dynamics.
Her approach pays attention to how past relationships affect current behavior. Therapy sessions are designed to be practical and steady. Jennifer aims to make the work feel doable, whether someone needs short-term coping tools or longer-term exploration of patterns.
She encourages questions and partners with clients to set clear, realistic goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Jennifer blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy in ways that fit each person's needs. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges by teaching practical coping strategies and new routines. Client-centered work centers on listening and meeting people where they are, helping them feel heard and respected while they decide on next steps. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns, which can be useful for intimacy, trust, and family-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jennifer will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on progress and needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when they want interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
Questions people ask
What problems does she help with?
What is her general therapy style?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and location apply?
Which languages and international clients are supported?
What session formats are available?
How are costs handled?
How do I begin working together?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.