About Jendaya
Jendaya Clark works from a person-centered approach that centers the client's goals and choices. She uses practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Her style is direct but warm, and she encourages clients to build on strengths they already have.
Jendaya brings seven years of experience from community mental health and counseling. That background includes individual and group work with people facing major life transitions.
Background and approach
She has supported people through events like graduation, marriage, caregiving for aging parents, and medical challenges such as cancer and fertility concerns. Her practice blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered techniques. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and clarify what matters most.
Sessions focus on practical steps that fit daily life rather than abstract theory. She also works with concerns tied to identity and relationships, including multicultural issues, self-love, social anxiety, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, and women's concerns. Career stress and compassion fatigue are part of her caseload as well.
Jendaya holds an IL LCPC, which signals licensure in Illinois. She offers sessions in English and also connects with international clients when appropriate. To begin, she encourages people to take the first step and schedule a match and appointment.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Jendaya uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small steps toward what matters to them. That approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and finding direction after big life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that increase distress and to practice different behaviors. CBT is often helpful for managing low mood, social anxiety, and daily stressors. Client-Centered Therapy shapes her overall stance in sessions by keeping the conversation focused on the person and their priorities rather than imposing a plan.
Finding the right method is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video visits are good when visual cues help the conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging works well for ongoing reflections between appointments. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, school, caregiving, or travel, and they let her tailor session length and style to practical needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English