About Jenna
Jenna Elwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Michigan. She brings three years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and grief. Jenna works from the belief that each person knows their own story best.
She looks for strengths a person already has and builds on them. Her style is practical and supportive, aiming to help people take manageable steps toward change.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens to what matters most and helps create small, clear goals. Conversations often focus on coping skills, ways to reduce worry and strategies to handle difficult memories or urges. She also addresses how relationships and past family dynamics affect current behavior.
Clients may explore patterns like codependency, attachment concerns, or obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Jenna has experience with first responder and veteran issues, as well as problems tied to substance use and eating-related concerns. Her approach centers on collaboration.
She invites clients to guide the pace and choose what to work on. The aim is to leave each session with practical tools to use between meetings and a clearer plan for progress.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Jenna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical tools and skills. One common approach she emphasizes is skills-based work for anxiety and stress, which teaches breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce daily worry and panic. This helps when intrusive thoughts or physical anxiety feel overwhelming.She also works with methods that address trauma and grief by helping people process difficult memories at a steady pace and build coping strategies. This approach supports people dealing with past abuse, disaster-related stress, or the emotional pain of loss. When substance use or addictive behaviors are present, she helps clients identify triggers and develop healthier routines and supports.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Jenna will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. She adjusts plans over time based on what is helping and what feels workable for the client.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different situations. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed or video is not possible. Live chat and text messaging work well for frequent prompts, brief check-ins, or when written reflection feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English