About Jennifer
Jennifer "Jenni" Brooks helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, and low self-worth. She supports those dealing with depression, addictions, grief, and struggles around intimacy and parenting. Jenni also works with concerns like sleep and eating issues, anger, career transitions, and coping with major life changes.
Jenni uses straightforward, evidence-based approaches to guide conversations. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and looks for practical strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that fit day-to-day life rather than abstract theory. With seven years of clinical experience, Jenni has worked with people who have mood and psychotic concerns, personality disorders, and intellectual disabilities. Her background includes supporting people through infidelity, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.
She brings experience with a wide range of concerns and tailors work to each person’s situation. Jenni holds an LCPC, which is the Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential. She practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
Her style is direct, compassionate, and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people make steady progress. People who reach out can expect a practical, collaborative process. Jenni helps set achievable steps, checks in on progress, and adjusts the plan as needs change.
The emphasis is on usable tools and clearer direction for everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques here focus on practical skills and making steady changes. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills and problem-solving strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This method teaches concrete steps people can use between sessions to handle difficult moments.Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process difficult events at a pace they can tolerate. This involves grounding techniques, emotional regulation tools, and gradual revisiting of memories when a person feels ready. These steps are aimed at improving daily functioning and decreasing overwhelming reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that suit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans get adjusted over time as progress and new information appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video helps keep visual connection for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can require less bandwidth and work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging allow flexible, brief contact between calls and can fit into busy schedules. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English