About Jennifer
Jennifer Cole is an LMSW with eight years of practice helping people change the direction of their lives. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support for people facing painful transitions. Her style is warm and direct, focused on what can be done next rather than getting stuck in what went wrong.
She helps people deal with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Jennifer also supports those managing grief, career shifts, addiction concerns, ADHD, and the emotional fallout of trauma and abuse.
How Jennifer works
She offers care for people navigating relationship problems, questions about identity, and compassion fatigue. Jennifer blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based work to untangle patterns from important relationships and uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Her client-centered stance keeps sessions focused on each person's values and goals. Sessions are practical and conversational. She helps people set small goals, try new ways of coping, and notice what works.
Jennifer pays attention to how past losses and attachment wounds show up in current life choices and feelings. People who choose her often want straightforward guidance along with space to process feelings. She invites clients to take small steps toward change and stays alongside them as they test new ways of living.
To begin, prospective clients complete an initial matching process and schedule sessions that fit their needs.
Jennifer lists 12 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Jennifer often uses attachment-based work and cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people understand patterns and change day-to-day responses. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationships shape current expectations and reactions, which can help with trust, intimacy, and recurring conflict. Cognitive-behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms appear in daily life, and then recommend methods to try. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach stays relevant to what the client needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and speak in real time, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep appointments and try therapy within a regular routine.
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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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