About Jennifer
Jennifer Evans is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She also supports those coping with career challenges, relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Jennifer brings a calm, direct style that focuses on practical steps and clear goals.
She uses straightforward conversation and gentle challenge to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions emphasize hands-on strategies such as skill practice, thought work, and step-by-step plans.
Background and approach
She blends a person-centered stance with tools from cognitive approaches to make changes that matter day to day. Jennifer holds a Master of Arts in Art Therapy and lists Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. She has over two decades of clinical experience and has worked in varied settings over the years.
That background informs a flexible, real-world approach to problems big and small. In sessions she often uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and set meaningful goals. Attachment-focused work helps when past relationships shape current fears and reactions.
Emotionally focused techniques are used to help identify feelings and strengthen emotional regulation. Her practical focus includes psychoeducation and coping skills so clients leave with concrete tools. Jennifer aims to help people build resilience, manage overwhelming emotions, and take realistic steps toward their goals.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clear about what matters and take small actions toward those values. It focuses on learning to accept difficult feelings while committing to steps that move life forward, useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help identify those patterns, practice new ways of relating, and reduce repeated fears or reactions tied to past experiences.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening stance that centers the person’s own pace and goals. In this setting the therapist follows the client’s lead while offering reflection and encouragement to foster self-understanding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining approaches or shifting focus as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat support ongoing work between sessions and quick skill reminders.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English