About Jennifer
Jennifer Bazner is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Michigan with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, self-esteem concerns, career questions, and major life changes. Jennifer aims to create an affirming and supportive space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Her work often centers on concerns common to LGBTQ people, including social anxiety and sexuality-related issues. She also helps people cope with chronic pain, illness, or disability and navigate the emotional fallout from divorce, separation, or domestic violence.
Background and approach
Mood disorders, panic attacks, phobias, and seasonal affective disorder are also areas she addresses. Jennifer pays attention to communication problems and control issues that make everyday life harder. She helps clients reduce isolation, work through guilt and shame, and reconnect with a sense of life purpose.
Veterans and those with multicultural concerns can expect a clinician mindful of varied backgrounds and experiences. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on practical steps, problem solving, and building resilient coping habits.
She encourages small changes that add up over time. Jennifer accepts sessions in English and offers a range of remote formats so people can choose what fits their life. To begin, prospective clients follow the site process to match and schedule sessions.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Jennifer uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes skill building for anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce fear and avoidance. Another approach centers on improving self-esteem and communication by identifying unhelpful beliefs and practicing clearer ways to express needs and set boundaries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques fit best for the issue at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English