About Jennifer
Jennifer Pelo is a licensed professional counselor with nine years in independent practice and a long history in school counseling. She focuses on clear, practical support for stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life changes. Her approach centers on building trust and helping people find their own answers.
She aims to make the first steps easier. She listens without judgment and helps clients spot patterns that get in the way.
How Jennifer works
Sessions focus on real problems and small changes that add up over time. Jennifer uses approaches grounded in attachment work, emotion-focused methods, and skills-based strategies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work focused on each person’s goals.
For trauma, she can include EMDR when appropriate. Her style is steady and collaborative. She helps people name painful feelings, practice new ways of coping, and repair important relationships.
Practical tools and guided reflection often appear alongside emotional processing. Jennifer works with adults facing a wide range of concerns, from career stress and caregiver strain to intimacy issues and midlife transitions. She supports LGBT concerns and common relationship problems like communication, infidelity, and commitment struggles.
Her background in schools informs a calm, patient way of explaining ideas. Clients find the process most helpful when they want focused support, clearer priorities, and concrete skills to manage strong emotions and stressful life events.
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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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and how they help
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. This approach helps people understand patterns of closeness and distance and supports rebuilding trust and connection in important relationships.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and shift intense emotions that drive conflict or withdrawal. It is useful for working through grief, attachment wounds, and intimacy-related struggles by focusing on what feelings say about needs.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. Skills training can be especially helpful for improving daily functioning and reducing reactive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as therapy progresses so care can change when goals shift.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or suit people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, written reflection, or support between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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