About Jennifer
Jennifer Gadberry is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, and relationship struggles. She works with adults across a range of concerns including mood changes, trauma, eating issues, ADHD, and questions about life purpose. Her tone is straightforward and practical, aimed at making the first step feel manageable.
She brings 23 years of counseling experience in Southeast Missouri, including work in crisis settings, outpatient care, and residential treatment for children and teens.
Background and approach
She also teaches psychology at the college level and meets many young adults during that work. Her background means she has seen a wide variety of life transitions and family-related stressors. Her style is rooted in a client-centered approach that focuses on a person’s strengths.
She helps people notice how thoughts and behaviors interact, then tries practical exercises that can change daily patterns. She also uses solution-focused questions to identify small, workable steps toward better coping. Sessions may include cognitive-behavioral exercises, mindfulness and relaxation practice, and storytelling or narrative activities to make sense of difficult experiences.
She emphasizes collaboration, so goals and the pace of work are shaped together with each person. Jennifer’s practice reflects a values-informed outlook and a belief that insight plus action leads to change. She supports people who want concrete tools to manage emotions, repair relationships, or find direction after loss or major life shifts.
How approach and online formats work together
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and building on a person’s strengths; it helps people who need a calm space to sort feelings and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and eating-related concerns. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps and what works now to move someone toward their goals.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet when life is busy. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or when written reflection feels helpful. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English