About Jennifer
Jennifer Hess is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and parenting challenges. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, aimed at meeting each person where they are.
She encourages small first steps toward a more balanced life. She works with individuals facing family conflict and the fallout from abuse or traumatic events. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope with panic, mood shifts, and overwhelming worry.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped around what matters most to the client, with tools chosen to fit daily life and routines. Jennifer also helps people wrestling with relationship patterns like abandonment and attachment concerns. She addresses communication problems, control issues, and feelings of isolation.
Work in sessions may include clarifying values, building healthier reactions, and practicing new ways of relating to others. Caregiver stress, money worries, and questions about life purpose are common topics she sees. She is comfortable talking through guilt, shame, and impulsive behaviors in straightforward terms.
Her style is steady and practical, with an emphasis on helping people regain enough calm to make better choices. Clients connect with her in formats that fit their lives, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. She tailors the pace and plan to each person’s goals and personal circumstances.
Evidence-based approaches and how they work online
Jennifer uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to daily life. One common approach focuses on learning concrete coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage panic attacks. Sessions teach breathing, grounding, and short behavioral steps that help lower immediate distress and make day-to-day tasks easier.Another frequent focus is processing trauma in small, manageable steps. This involves careful talk about difficult memories, identifying unhelpful patterns that follow them, and practicing safer ways to respond. The work aims to lessen the hold traumatic experiences have on thoughts and behavior, so clients can regain more control over their reactions.
Figuring out which approach fits best is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. Clients and the therapist collaborate to pick techniques that feel doable and relevant to real-life demands.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel when that helps progress. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief reflections, scheduling support, or step-by-step coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent help around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English