About Jennifer
Jennifer 'Jenna' Nevins is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She centers the relationship in therapy and aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental place where clients can begin to breathe again. Jenna speaks plainly and meets people where they are, helping them make sense of symptoms and situations.
Jenna combines a person-centered stance with practical tools so sessions are both understanding and actionable.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns tied to attachment, life transitions, and past losses, then helps clients try new ways of coping. Common goals include improving self-esteem, reducing overwhelm, and handling relationship or parenting strain. Her work draws from cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior ideas, and trauma-focused methods such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
She uses these methods with curiosity rather than as rigid rules, adapting choices to each persons needs. That might mean learning skills for emotion regulation, addressing painful memories, or shifting unhelpful thinking patterns. Jenna has five years of clinical experience and holds the LMHC credential, licensed in Iowa.
She is comfortable talking about neurodiversity, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and related concerns. Sessions focus on small, steady steps that build a stronger sense of agency. People who meet with Jenna typically find a collaborative partner who values honesty and practicality.
She aims to help clients reconnect with choice and self-worth while working toward clearer daily routines and less emotional reactivity.
How Jenna Brings Therapeutic Methods Online
Attachment-based approaches focus on connection and safety in relationships; online sessions use that focus to help people notice patterns from past bonds and try new ways of relating in daily life. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and acceptance, giving clients space to name what matters while the therapist reflects and supports their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve routines, and manage ADHD-related challenges.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. Jenna will listen to worries, goals, and daily realities, then suggest methods to try together. She often blends approaches so work is both compassionate and concrete, and adjustments are made if something doesnt fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone visits work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can support quick check-ins or homework prompts. These options help clients fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and match the format to the type of work they want to do.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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