About Jennifer
Jennifer Warthen is a licensed social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting strains, self-esteem struggles, life transitions, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and caregivers can use at home. She uses short, focused sessions to teach skills people can try between meetings.
Jennifer often works on coping tools for panic, social anxiety, and communication problems. She also offers support for managing everyday routines and behavior challenges that come with ADHD.
Background and approach
Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The College of Charleston and a Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina. She holds the credential LISW-CP, which is listed as SC LISW-CP. Her clinical background spans more than 25 years in mental health settings.
Her work includes using evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy. She also uses the PEERS curriculum from UCLA to teach social skills and improve peer interactions for children and adolescents with ASD and ADHD. Sessions emphasize clear strategies and small, achievable goals.
Jennifer describes her role as offering compassion, practical tools, and straightforward guidance. She helps people build routines, manage anxiety symptoms, and improve social and communication skills step by step.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Jennifer often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and step-by-step practice. CBT can help with anxiety, panic symptoms, and low self-esteem by teaching tools to manage worries and build coping skills.She also applies structured social skills training such as the PEERS curriculum to teach conversational skills, making and keeping friends, and navigating peer conflicts. This approach uses role play and coached practice to build real-world social ability, which can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client or parent to choose techniques that match goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust methods over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face teaching and role play, phone sessions can be a simpler audio check-in, live chat can suit short updates, and messaging supports brief reflections or homework between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to practice skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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