About Jennifer
Jennifer Maguire is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 25 years of experience to her practice in New Jersey. She uses a warm, interactive style and believes listening matters. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and major life changes.
She works from a client-centered perspective and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions emphasize practical steps: identifying strengths, spotting unhelpful thinking, and building coping skills that fit daily routines.
Background and approach
Jennifer draws on proven methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies to teach concrete skills like emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, career strain, and compassion fatigue. She supports people coping with trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness or pain, and ADHD among other concerns.
Jennifer tailors plans to each person’s goals and life situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, achievable changes. Jennifer aims to help people move toward more satisfying, resilient lives by strengthening coping tools and clarifying priorities.
She offers straightforward guidance and steady support as people take steps toward change. Jennifer earned her education in the region and practices as an LPC in New Jersey. She conducts sessions in English and integrates evidence-based strategies with a supportive therapeutic relationship.
Using proven approaches in online therapy
Jennifer often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and then practice different, more helpful responses. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, stress, and unhelpful thinking patterns.She also relies on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills work to teach mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills help people manage intense emotions, handle conflict, and reduce self-destructive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to each person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text sessions allow shorter check-ins and ongoing written support between calls. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while still practicing concrete skills and tracking progress.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English