About Jodi
Jodi Fortner is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 12 years of experience helping people untangle difficult thoughts and feelings. She works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and major life changes. Jodi also focuses on self-love and issues common to young adults.
She uses straightforward, practical conversations to help clients make sense of what they are feeling. Jodi explains how thoughts, emotions, and actions connect and then practices skills that change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused so progress is measurable. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge negative thinking and build new habits. Solution-focused methods help set concrete steps and short-term goals people can try between meetings.
Trauma-focused work supports processing painful memories and reducing their impact on daily life. Jodi offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. That flexibility helps people fit therapy into busy schedules and try formats that feel most comfortable to them.
Her practice follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. People start by clicking the Start Therapy button, filling a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling sessions based on therapist availability.
How Jodi’s Approaches Work Online
Jodi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on setting clear, short-term goals and trying small practical steps between sessions to create quick momentum.She also incorporates Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events are causing ongoing distress, helping clients process memories and reduce their hold on daily functioning. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative - the therapist and client review goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most.
Online sessions use video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. Video is good when visual cues matter, phone calls work well with lower bandwidth, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging lets clients reflect and respond in writing. These options make it easier to attend regularly and test different styles until the best fit is found.
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- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English