About Jennafer
Jennafer Matthews is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 11 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, straightforward approach for people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Jennafer aims to make therapy feel manageable and welcoming from the first session.
She centers sessions on the individual, treating each person as the expert on their own life. Conversations focus on practical steps and small changes that build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Humor and a gentle tone are used when helpful to lighten heavy topics. Jennafer uses approaches that are easy to understand and put into practice. She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies.
These methods help with mood challenges, coping skills, and day-to-day problem solving. Sessions often involve talking through recent struggles, identifying patterns, and trying out new ways of responding. She pays attention to how past experiences affect current relationships and feelings.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who reach out can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as needed. Jennafer explains options clearly and helps clients choose what feels most useful.
Her style is practical, compassionate, and focused on steady, realistic change.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. In practice this means sessions start with the client's goals and move at their pace, which helps people who feel overwhelmed by change or uncertainty.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses simple exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. These short practices can help with stress, emotional regulation, and coping after trauma.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jennafer will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts methods over time based on what proves useful, so the plan evolves rather than being fixed at the start.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility - video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try different formats as needs change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English