About Connie
Connie Jenks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 19 years of experience helping people cope with trauma and abuse, grief, depression, bipolar disorder, and addictions. She also supports those dealing with low self-esteem, anger, career changes, compassion fatigue, and other mood-related struggles. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth.
She focuses on listening and building trust first so people feel safe to talk. Connie aims to make sessions straightforward and useful.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centered work to follow each person's pace and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and make small, realistic changes in behavior. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, short-term goals and measure progress. For people affected by trauma, Trauma-Focused Therapy is applied with attention to safety and pacing. Connie keeps language plain and sessions focused on concrete steps.
She helps people sort through grief, manage mood swings, address addictive patterns, and handle stressful life changes. She can also support clients experiencing guilt, shame, self-harm urges, or trichotillomania. Based in Virginia, she offers multiple ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Connie works collaboratively to find what fits each person's needs and routines.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the person first and adjusting to their pace; online sessions allow that same slow, person-led work through conversation and check-ins. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral experiments, which works well over video or phone where homework and tracking can be reviewed together. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on safety and step-by-step processing of difficult memories, and providers adapt pacing to what each person can tolerate during remote sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time, and methods may be combined to match progress and comfort.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls bring face-to-face interaction when more visual cues help, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat can fit into a busy day for focused problem-solving, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English