About Jennifer
Jennifer Plesz is a Licensed Professional Counselor with five years of clinical experience. She draws on her own life changes and formal training to help people move past obstacles and reach practical goals. Jennifer works from Michigan and offers support in English for a range of concerns.
She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, and depression. She also helps people facing career decisions, grief, parenting strain, and big life transitions.
How Jennifer works
Intimacy-related issues, relationship and communication problems, and anger are part of her regular work. Jennifer uses a mix of approaches to match each person's situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and acceptance strategies to help people live by their values.
Emotionally-focused ideas and client-centered attention guide conversations about relationships and feelings. Additionally, she supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, adoption and foster care topics, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, cancer-related stress, caregiver burden, codependency, and family of origin issues. She also addresses challenges like divorce, domestic violence aftermath, commitment questions, and emptiness.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Jennifer helps clients set achievable steps and practices they can use between meetings. Her style is direct but warm, aimed at helping people build skills and make meaningful changes.
Jennifer lists 10 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
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes because it focuses on action alongside acceptance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical techniques to change them, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the client's experience and uses empathic listening to help people feel heard and find their own answers.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques as progress is made and checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you see facial cues and do focused sessions, phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options help people fit therapy into a busy life and stay consistent with appointments.
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