About Jennifer
Jennifer Kirkpatrick is a Licensed Professional Counselor working in Ohio. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and issues like eating, sleeping, and anger. Jennifer takes a practical approach and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and manageable for someone juggling daily life.
She draws on client-centered principles to build a trusting, non-judgmental space where people feel heard. Jennifer uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try new coping skills.
Background and approach
She also incorporates solution-focused work to set clear, achievable goals and measure progress. Sessions are designed to fit the person in front of her. Jennifer listens first, then creates a tailored plan with concrete steps.
That plan may include mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing strategies, or structured skill work depending on the concern. With seven years of clinical experience, Jennifer has supported people through grief, relationship conflict, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD-related struggles, and trauma recovery. She also helps with career stress, compassion fatigue, and process addictions such as problematic gambling or exercise patterns.
Therapy with Jennifer is collaborative and goal-oriented. People who want clear tools, steady support, and practical steps to manage life changes may find her style helpful. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through multiple online formats.
Approach, methods, and online options
Jennifer uses client-centered work to build a safe, respectful space where people feel heard and can set their own goals. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people discover strengths they can use to solve problems.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to interrupt unhelpful cycles. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and many day-to-day challenges.
Choosing the right method is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and goals. That may mean mixing client-centered listening, CBT skills practice, mindfulness exercises, or motivational interviewing depending on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for more in-depth sessions, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule regular work on goals without major disruption to daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Ohio
- Languages
- English