About Jennifer
Jennifer Colón is an LPC - a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Texas who uses a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and relationship or family struggles. Her style is calm and practical, with a focus on small, usable steps clients can apply between sessions.
In session she treats people as partners in the work. She helps clients set clear goals and builds short action plans to reach them.
How Jennifer works
Jennifer often suggests brief exercises to try between meetings, such as journaling prompts, skill practice, or creative activities that reinforce progress. Her background includes eight years of counseling experience in community and school settings across the Dallas–Fort Worth region. That work exposed her to a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, self-harm, and body image struggles.
She has also supported people with identity and LGBT issues, career stress, and challenges common to young adults. Jennifer draws on several practical methods in her sessions. She uses client-centered techniques to follow each person’s pace, cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, dialectical behavior ideas for emotion regulation, and solution-focused methods to set reachable goals.
Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when change feels difficult. Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. She meets people where they are and adapts tools to everyday life.
If someone wants clear steps, creative options, and a supportive guide, her approach is aimed at making therapy feel useful and doable.
Jennifer lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s pace. Online sessions let the therapist and client shape conversations around what matters most, so progress moves at a comfortable speed and goals stay relevant.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. In an online format Jennifer can teach practical CBT skills, assign brief between-session exercises, and review how new strategies worked in daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal skills. These techniques can be practiced in video calls or reinforced through short messages and exercises between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods to try. The first few sessions are used to test what fits and adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls allow in-depth conversations and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share brief updates, ask quick questions, or keep momentum between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules without long commutes.
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