About Jennifer
Jennifer Shaw-Klymyshyn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience in behavioral health. She uses practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. Her tone is straightforward and calm, aimed at people who want clear steps and steady support.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients spot thinking patterns that feed distress and try different behaviors. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone feels stuck and needs help strengthening their own reasons for change.
How Jennifer works
Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from painful stories and build new, more useful narratives. Jennifer prefers a strengths-based, person-centered way of working. She focuses on what people already do well and builds from there, while also addressing life changes, relationship strain, and role stress like caregiving.
Sessions emphasize practical tools and small experiments that can be tried between meetings. Her background includes long-term work in mood, anxiety, thought, and personality-related concerns, and she brings experience with trauma, substance use, and grief. She is comfortable helping people who face career pressures, compassion fatigue, or difficult family history.
Jennifer offers sessions from Oregon and conducts them in English. She notes that current appointment times are in the mornings and early afternoons. The approach is collaborative, with a focus on clear goals and manageable steps to help people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Jennifer lists 5 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
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Jennifer uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT works well for people who want concrete tools and step-by-step practice. Motivational Interviewing is a respectful, goal-focused method that helps people clarify what they want to change and build motivation from their own reasons. It often helps when someone feels unsure or stuck about taking steps forward.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan based on how things are going.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text-based options support quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These choices help people fit sessions into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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