About Jennifer
Jennifer Bickford uses a client-centered approach to help people find practical, workable ways forward. She combines warmth with clear questions to help people understand what matters to them. Jennifer holds an LPCC - a Minnesota Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - and brings 11 years of experience to sessions.
She helps people who are having trouble with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and trauma. She also works with concerns tied to relationships, intimacy, parenting, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what small steps feel possible to try between meetings. Jennifer draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She uses mindfulness exercises to help people notice physical and emotional signs of distress.
Narrative and motivational techniques help people clarify values and find motivation to make changes. Her style is interactive and respectful. She listens first, then uses reflective questions to help people name patterns and try different actions.
Treatment plans are shaped around each person’s goals and pace rather than a one-size-fits-all program. Jennifer has practiced in Minnesota settings for over a decade and adapts her work for remote formats like video, phone, chat, or text. She aims to create a calm, focused space where practical problem solving and personal exploration meet.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy puts the person and their goals at the center of each session. The therapist listens carefully, asks reflective questions, and helps clarify what the client wants to change. This approach is helpful for people who want support that is shaped around their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions include practical exercises and small experiments to try between meetings, which can be easy to track in online formats. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and manage stress symptoms in daily life.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods seem most useful based on goals, preferences, and how things respond in early sessions. That plan can change as people learn what helps them most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is most like a traditional session and is useful for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter format fits a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English