About Jennifer
Jennifer Garvin is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with 11 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and challenges around self-esteem. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make conversations easy to follow for people under pressure.
She draws on approaches that include client-centered care, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sessions tend to focus on practical steps - noticing thoughts and behaviors, practicing small changes, and building coping skills that fit day-to-day life.
How Jennifer works
Jennifer invites clients to weigh in on goals and treatment choices so plans feel realistic. Her work often addresses relationship and family concerns from an individual perspective, parenting stresses, and issues connected to loss or caregiving. She also supports people facing addiction, domestic violence aftermath, body image worries, and the strain of major life changes.
Jennifer pays attention to how past attachments and abandonment experiences shape current reactions. Clients can expect a collaborative tone. Conversations are direct but respectful, with space for emotion and problem solving.
Mindfulness practices and brief behavioral experiments are used alongside talk to help people try things between sessions. She provides services in English and offers several online session formats. People interested in starting fill out a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current responses. Online sessions allow people to talk through patterns that affect trust and closeness, and to practice new ways of relating in real time. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions clients learn to notice unhelpful thinking, try small behavioral experiments, and use homework exercises to test new habits between visits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and adjust methods together. That collaborative planning helps pick techniques that feel useful and manageable for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use a written format for processing. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit around work, caregiving, and other demands.
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