About Jennifer
Jennifer Robinson is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and changes in their lives. She creates a calm, affirming presence and focuses on practical steps people can take day to day. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for busy parents and adults.
In sessions she listens for patterns that keep someone stuck and then tries small experiments to change them.
How Jennifer works
Jennifer draws on approaches that teach practical skills, improve relationships, and address painful memories. She often helps people who struggle with self-esteem, intimacy concerns, addictions, sleep and eating problems, and the strain of caregiving. Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment wounds and to alternative sexuality topics like BDSM and kink when those are relevant.
She also supports people managing chronic pain, disability, or career stress. Jennifer adapts what she does to each person instead of using one fixed method. Jennifer uses tools from cognitive and behavioral work, acceptance-based strategies, and emotion-regulation practices to reduce overwhelm and increase flexibility.
Sessions aim to build skills you can use between appointments and to shift old habits gently over time. Based in Michigan, she offers services in English and is willing to work with people located outside the United States. The initial steps are simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session that fits your life.
Jennifer lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Jennifer works with
The areas below are the ones Jennifer selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting ruled by them and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life changes where people want clearer direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, sleep and eating problems, and stress because it teaches concrete skills you can practice between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now. It helps people understand intimacy, abandonment wounds, and communication problems so they can form steadier connections in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods together, and adjust techniques based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide jointly which strategies to keep and which to change over time.
Online appointments are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions fit into busy schedules. Video is helpful for face-to-face interaction, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging let people check in between meetings or use shorter touchpoints. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent with everyday life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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