About Jennifer
Jennifer Paradysz is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. She focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can use to feel steadier and more connected in daily life. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she aims to make therapy understandable and doable for busy lives.
Jennifer draws on a trauma-focused clinical background earned while completing a master’s degree at the University of New England.
How Jennifer works
That training guides how she supports people coping with complex trauma, abuse, and post-traumatic stress. She also works with depression, ADHD, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges around sleep and anger. Her approach blends attachment-based and client-centered ideas with cognitive behavioral tools and EMDR when appropriate.
Sessions often include emotion regulation skills, mindfulness practices, and techniques that connect thoughts, body sensations, and behavior. Jennifer tailors work to each person’s history and present needs. People who come to her can expect a focus on rebuilding safety, strengthening self-trust, and improving relationships.
She uses strengths-based interventions and practical exercises to support day-to-day change. Conversations emphasize small, achievable steps and clearer coping strategies. Jennifer offers varied session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
She accepts international clients and works from Massachusetts, using methods that help people move forward after loss, separation, or long-standing stress.
Jennifer lists 11 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Clinical approaches and online therapy options
Jennifer uses Attachment-Based Therapy to help people understand how early relationships affect current patterns. This approach looks at how trust, closeness, and past losses shape reactions and relationships today, which can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and family of origin wounds.She also employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to map the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger by changing unhelpful thinking and building new habits. When trauma is a central issue, EMDR is an additional option to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, history, and comfort level. Together they adjust techniques over time so sessions remain practical and relevant.
Online therapy makes those methods more accessible through multiple formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief updates, skill coaching, and flexible communication between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and steady progress over time.
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