About Jennifer
Jennifer Hayden is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, trauma, mood concerns, and the many life changes that can feel overwhelming. Jennifer brings 22 years of experience to sessions.
She blends straightforward conversation with practical strategies so people can use skills between meetings. She respects medical perspectives on mental health while also addressing the everyday parts of healing that follow a diagnosis.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. Jennifer also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, as one available method for working through traumatic memories and addiction-related material. Sessions are aimed at helping people reduce distress and build coping skills that fit their daily life.
People turn to her for help with relationships, self-esteem, sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues like body image, chronic illness, codependency, and problems rooted in family of origin. Jennifer offers a calm, direct style and focuses on practical steps that make a difference day to day.
She encourages people to set goals and to check progress as they move forward. Her work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Online approaches for trauma, addiction, and daily stress
Jennifer uses client-centered therapy to create a space where people feel heard and can set their own goals; this approach focuses on listening, empathy, and responding to each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy is offered to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to teach concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is available as a different way to work with traumatic memories and addiction-related material using structured protocols.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jennifer treats finding a good fit as a collaborative process and will discuss how different methods might help with your specific goals. She adapts techniques over time based on what is and isn't working for you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for more in-depth sessions and EMDR work when appropriate, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can serve for brief check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when in-person meetings are not possible.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English