About Jennifer
Jennifer Ladd is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Tennessee with 13 years of experience. She helps people struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, mood disorders such as bipolar, ADHD, addictions, grief, and sleep or eating issues. Her style is warm and conversational and she aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable.
In sessions she listens for the underlying reasons behind feelings and behavior. She uses clinical listening and intuition to help clients name patterns like codependency, attachment wounds, abandonment fears, or dissociation.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to the person and focus on real-life steps rather than labels. Her approach draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns. She also uses acceptance-based strategies to help people live by their values, and attachment-focused work to address how early relationships shape current connections.
Dialectical skills are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Jennifer has provided both individual and group counseling across a range of concerns. She values sensitivity and respect and works to build a practical plan with each person.
Her aim is to help people discover strengths, reduce symptoms that get in the way, and move toward a more manageable daily life. Many clients come for focused help with communication problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness adjustment, blended family challenges, body image, or sexual expression concerns. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and adapts techniques to each person's goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take practical steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present connections and intimacy; it helps people understand and change repeating relationship cycles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and skill practice, which can help with mood problems, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, test methods, and adjust the plan as progress and needs change. That means techniques may shift over time depending on what helps most for symptoms and everyday functioning.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions are useful for in-depth conversations and skill teaching. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow for ongoing support and brief coaching between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage follow-up work, and maintain continuity when circumstances change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English