About Terry
Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, parenting challenges, and self-esteem struggles. She practices from New Jersey and works with adults across a wide age range. Her style blends practical behavior-focused work with attention to deeper life patterns.
Terry uses straightforward conversation and concrete techniques to help people manage anxiety, depression, anger, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
How Terry works
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current choices. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques are used to build present-moment skills and values-driven action.
Her background includes work in foster care and healthcare settings and experience supporting people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, cancer and hospice issues, and adoption and foster care matters. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, infidelity, prejudice and discrimination, sexual assault and abuse, and family of origin difficulties. Terry aims to match practical interventions to each person's goals.
Sessions focus on identifying patterns, changing unhelpful behaviors, and practicing skills that fit daily life. She emphasizes respect and compassion while encouraging the work needed for lasting change. Clients can expect a calm, direct approach that balances talk about the past with steps to improve the present and future.
Terry frames therapy as a collaborative process and supports people who are ready to take on the challenge of change.
Terry lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Terry works with
The areas below are the ones Terry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients can explore concerns at their own pace.Terry approaches the choice of methods as a collaboration. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then shape sessions around that feedback. Trying an approach and adjusting as work unfolds is part of the process rather than a one-time decision.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow longer, face-to-face style work; phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for simple check-ins. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help fit therapy into busy lives.
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