About Jennifer
Jennifer Mckinzie is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi with 13 years in mental health care. She focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them take the next step toward manageable change. Jennifer aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming and honors the courage it takes to begin.
She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship issues, and addictions. She also supports people facing parenting strain, sleep or eating difficulties, career questions, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Jennifer helps people think through communication problems, separation and divorce challenges, and trauma-related issues including sexual assault and abuse. Her approach is practical and collaborative. Conversations are tailored to each person's situation and goals.
Jennifer draws on client-centered methods to listen and understand, and uses cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also incorporates mindfulness strategies to help people manage strong emotions and build present-moment skills. Motivational interviewing is used when people want support to strengthen their own reasons for change.
Sessions are shaped around what the person needs and prefers. Jennifer offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work. She asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started and then schedule based on available days.
She values respect, sensitivity, and a steady, goal-focused process.
Approaches that guide online work and your next steps
Client-centered therapy is built on listening and respect. The therapist focuses on understanding each person's perspective and shaping sessions around their needs and goals. This approach helps when someone needs empathy, validation, and a space to figure things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and ease strong emotions. Short breathing and grounding practices are often used to help people stay present and handle stress more calmly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their situation, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative process is meant to keep the plan useful and believable.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people talk face-to-face when they prefer it. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates and ongoing support between fuller sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English