About Jennifer
Jennifer Wells is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. She practices in Texas and supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, addiction, and parenting challenges. Jennifer uses practical approaches to help people manage painful feelings and regain balance in daily life.
Her background is rooted in community mental health work. That experience exposed her to a wide range of problems, from grief and relationship struggles to caregiver stress and codependency.
How Jennifer works
She draws on that work when helping people sort out what matters most to them. In sessions she blends straightforward skill teaching with attention to life history. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns of behavior.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and connection, especially when early wounds affect current bonds. Jennifer also uses mindfulness practices and dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She frames therapy as practical and goal-oriented, so sessions often focus on small, achievable changes.
Coaching elements support people as they try new habits between meetings. Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, blended family challenges, fatherhood issues, and domestic violence recovery. Jennifer works with people on career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and the loneliness that can follow big life changes.
She aims to help each person find clearer choices and more effective coping.
Jennifer lists 8 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect current bonds and trust. Online sessions use conversation and simple exercises to help people notice patterns in their relationships and practice different ways of connecting.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In video or phone sessions the therapist helps identify unhelpful thinking, tries out alternative thoughts, and assigns small behavioral experiments to change daily habits.
Mindfulness methods teach present-moment awareness and basic breathing or grounding practices. These tools are useful for managing anxiety, stress, and strong emotions during a busy day.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past, then recommend a blend of techniques. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat provides quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or reminders. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other daily demands while still getting focused, professional help.
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