About Jennifer
Jennifer Karr is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 19 years of experience. She works with adults feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, or big life changes. Her style is casual, compassionate, and straightforward, and she aims to create a space where people can speak honestly without judgment.
She tailors sessions to each person's needs and comfort level. Jennifer uses practical tools to help manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and address problems that interfere with daily life.
Background and approach
She often blends cognitive-behavioral strategies with skills training and solution-focused ideas to build short-term wins and long-term coping. Jennifer has long experience providing mental health care in jails and with people involved in the legal system. That background gives her steady hands for crisis moments and an ability to stay calm when emotions run high.
She also understands the stress that comes with high-pressure jobs and supports people in first responder and legal professions. Her practice covers a broad range of concerns, including mood and personality issues, substance and process addictions, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-worth and intimacy. She is comfortable addressing difficult or stigmatized topics and helps people develop practical plans to move forward.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through several online formats. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connects people with the right option for their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jennifer commonly uses cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and steps you can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change harmful patterns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT techniques are useful when feelings feel overwhelming, when impulsivity causes problems, or when people need better ways to handle conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adapt methods over time. Together they decide which strategies make sense and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, flexible communication during busy days, and an option for ongoing written support between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English