About Jenna
Jenna Lapointe draws on a client-centered, process-oriented approach that blends evidence-based methods to help clients make meaningful changes. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with both LCSW and LICSW credentials, she emphasizes empathetic understanding alongside practical behavioral tools to address stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns.
Background and approach
Jenna frames symptoms as messages to be explored and teaches strategies to meet underlying needs in healthier ways. Her practice incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, EMDR, mindfulness-informed cognitive techniques, and cognitive behavioral methods, chosen to fit each person’s goals and preferences.
With 13 years of experience, she has worked in outpatient settings supporting people through depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and many challenges tied to self-esteem, parenting, career, and family dynamics. Jenna favors interventions that integrate body-based and verbal processing for more sustainable change.
Practicing in West Virginia, Jenna guides clients toward actionable skills they can use outside sessions while maintaining an empathic, nonjudgmental stance during the therapeutic process. She encourages prospective clients to consider which changes they want and to begin by completing a brief intake to determine fit and next steps.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Therapy
Jenna commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) alongside mindfulness and cognitive techniques. ACT helps clients clarify values and take committed action toward meaningful goals while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings, which can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. EMDR works with memory processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and associated symptoms, supporting recovery from trauma and abuse.Choosing the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Jenna partners with clients to explore goals, preferences, and how symptoms present in daily life, and she adapts methods over time to find what produces the best fit and forward movement for each person.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and easier access to care. These formats allow clients to engage in therapy from home or another convenient location, schedule around work or family commitments, and continue momentum between sessions through text or chat when appropriate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, Illinois
- Languages
- English