About Jennifer
Jennifer Wickham is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Wisconsin with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting struggles, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. Jennifer also supports those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem issues.
She keeps sessions simple and practical. Jennifer listens first, then offers tools people can use between meetings. She focuses on how relationships, family history, and everyday routines affect emotional health.
Background and approach
Her style blends warmth with clear strategies so people can try small changes and track progress. Jennifer draws on a range of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses attachment-focused work to look at patterns from early relationships.
She applies cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new skills. She also uses trauma-focused methods when painful memories interfere with daily life. Her background includes work in community mental health and residential treatment for adolescents, plus consulting with the Wisconsin Association for Infant Mental Health.
She holds a master’s degree in mental health counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and brings years of experience with parents, children, teens, and adults. In sessions she encourages teamwork at a comfortable pace. Jennifer emphasizes practical steps people can take between sessions, such as simple behavior changes, mindfulness practices, and communication skills.
She aims to help people feel supported while they build a more stable day-to-day life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Jennifer uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns and reactions; this helps when relationship dynamics or family history keep repeating. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical skills for managing mood and anxiety. When past trauma interferes with daily life, she may use trauma-focused techniques to reduce distress and improve coping.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Jennifer discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together the therapist and client pick methods that fit the person's needs and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or school obligations and help maintain continuity when life gets busy.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- 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 esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English