About Jennifer
Dr. Jennifer Todd offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career pressure, and major life changes. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and focuses on building motivation, confidence, and clearer decision-making.
She draws on 24 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor - LPC - based in Alabama. Sessions center on what the client wants to change and on developing skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Conversations move toward small, usable steps rather than abstract theory. Her work commonly addresses attention differences, addictive behaviors, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also helps with sleep and eating struggles, caregiver stress, and burnout from compassion fatigue.
Practical goals like improving communication, managing anger, and handling career transitions get regular attention. Dr. Todd blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to reshape unhelpful thinking.
She incorporates emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection and mindfulness to reduce reactivity. Together these approaches support clearer choices and steadier moods. People who prefer collaborative, down-to-earth work often find her style helpful.
She emphasizes small experiments clients can try between sessions. The aim is steady progress toward clearer priorities, stronger coping, and a more manageable day-to-day life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Dr. Todd often uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening and following the client’s lead. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another common tool she uses to identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical behavior changes for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is collaborative. She will work with each person to try methods that match their needs and preferences. Over the first few sessions she and the client review what helps and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays focused and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to schedule, and messaging or live chat supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while still getting regular therapeutic support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English