About Jennifer
Jennifer Garland helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or knocked off course. She works with individuals who are dealing with anxiety, depression, substance use, stress, relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, and challenges tied to trauma and abuse. Jennifer is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience and practices from Missouri.
Her sessions aim to find practical ways forward. She starts by listening and finding the person’s existing strengths to build on.
How Jennifer works
Conversations focus on concrete steps, clearer thinking, and understanding how past experiences shape current reactions. Jennifer blends a few different approaches to match each person’s needs. That can include techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking, attachment-based ideas to look at relational patterns, and client-centered methods that emphasize the person’s goals.
She also uses motivational interviewing and narrative work when helpful. Her background includes extensive work with people affected by childhood abuse and other forms of trauma. Over nearly two decades she has helped people manage mood disorders, addiction, and the practical challenges of family life like blended family issues, adoption or foster care concerns, and caregiver stress.
Jennifer aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She helps clients set realistic goals and practices skills between sessions. The tone is direct and supportive, focused on usable tools for everyday life.
Jennifer lists 8 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
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Jennifer often uses client-centered work that focuses on the person’s own goals and values, creating space for them to guide the pace and topics of sessions. This helps when someone needs support sorting priorities or wants a compassionate listener who reflects their experience.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when clear steps and homework tasks help reduce symptoms. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at relationship patterns and how past bonds affect present reactions, which can help with intimacy, parenting, and family stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can shift over time as progress is made or new issues emerge.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people connect face to face, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives.
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