About Jennifer
Jennifer Quinn is a licensed social worker with 16 years of clinical experience. She practices in Michigan as an LCSW and an LMSW and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and life changes. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate environment where people feel heard.
Jennifer uses practical, evidence-based methods in sessions. She works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness approaches.
How Jennifer works
Sessions focus on real skills - managing strong feelings, improving sleep and eating patterns, and coping with grief or career shifts. Her work includes support for people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, parenting strain, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. She also addresses ADHD, bipolar disorder, and body image issues.
Jennifer helps people affected by adoption and foster care, abandonment, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. Jennifer adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She uses short-term tools alongside deeper work when needed.
The goal is to build coping skills, strengthen communication, and increase emotional awareness so daily life feels more manageable. People find her style straightforward and focused on practical change. She encourages gradual steps and offers coaching when clients want help setting goals.
Her background across clinical settings informs a flexible, person-centered approach.
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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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes because it focuses on practical values-based steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches strategies to change patterns that cause distress; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and anger.Choosing a method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and which approaches feel right. Sessions may combine methods over time so the plan matches changing needs and progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Messaging and live chat can support short check-ins, homework, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions.
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