About Jennifer
Jennifer Kind is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping adults who feel stuck by guiding them toward clearer self-understanding and practical change. Her style is relaxed and collaborative, and she uses empathy and humor to make hard conversations easier to handle.
Jennifer believes change begins with awareness. Small shifts in how people notice thoughts and reactions can lead to new, healthier habits.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps clients identify old patterns that cause shame, stress, or relationship friction, then practices concrete steps to respond differently. Her approach draws from attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practice. Jennifer blends those methods to match what each person needs.
She also uses relational tools and communication skills to improve how people connect with important others. Jennifer trained in counseling with a Master of Arts degree in Integral Counseling Psychology. That program emphasized a mix of psychological traditions and an integrative perspective on healing.
She also works with material from The Daring WayTM as part of building shame resilience and self-compassion. In sessions clients can expect straightforward conversation, practical exercises, and homework tailored to daily life. Jennifer aims to help people move from feeling stuck to feeling more agency, clearer about values, and better able to manage stress and mood challenges.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Jennifer often uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Attachment-based work focuses on how early connection patterns shape current relationships and helps people shift how they relate to others. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try strategies together, and adjust the plan over time so it fits your needs and lifestyle. Clients help set priorities and Jennifer offers tools to practice between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face-to-face and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option or fit into a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, written coaching, and flexible ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English