About Jennifer
Jennifer Garland is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience providing therapy to adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, relationship concerns, and many related challenges.
Background and approach
She practices from a strengths-based stance, helping clients identify and build on personal resources while addressing difficult experiences such as childhood abuse, grief, and complex family dynamics. Jennifer emphasizes an individualized plan that fits each person's needs and goals.
Her work blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with client-centered and attachment-informed perspectives, adapting strategies to suit presenting concerns like parenting difficulties, intimacy issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and substance use. She also attends to areas such as adoption and foster care, blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, and fertility-related struggles.
Licensed as an LCSW in both Missouri and Illinois, Jennifer offers services to clients in Missouri and accepts international clients as well, conducting sessions in English across multiple remote formats.
Attachment and Cognitive Tools for Online Healing
Jennifer commonly uses attachment-informed work and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online therapy. Attachment-based therapy explores how past relational patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses, helping people rebuild safety and stable connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be negotiated collaboratively. The therapist will listen to a client’s history, preferences, and goals and then recommend or combine methods that fit best, making adjustments over time as progress and needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These remote formats allow clients to engage from their own environment, fit appointments into busy schedules, and maintain continuity of care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English