About Jennifer
Jennifer Hoffman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 19 years of clinical experience based in Illinois.
Background and approach
She draws on a long career supporting people facing a wide range of challenges, including trauma and abuse, mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, anxiety and stress, ADHD, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Her practice also addresses family and parenting concerns, eating and anger problems, career pressures, compassion fatigue, and other complex presentations.
Her style is client-centered and empowering, focused on helping clients develop practical tools and strategies that fit their lives. Jennifer integrates mindfulness techniques and solution-focused interventions with trauma-informed care to create personalized plans.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a compassionate stance while tailoring conversations and treatment goals to each person’s needs. Jennifer works with many related concerns such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiver stress, communication problems, domestic violence, fertility and family issues, and coping with disasters.
She conducts sessions in English and practices as an Illinois LCSW (IL LCSW 149012045).
Online Approaches That Support Healing and Change
Jennifer uses a client-centered approach that places the person's needs and goals at the center of work, creating a collaborative atmosphere where the therapist listens, reflects, and helps shape treatment to fit the individual. This approach is useful for many concerns because it prioritizes the client's perspective and strengths.She also incorporates trauma-focused therapy when past traumatic experiences affect day-to-day functioning, using techniques that address trauma’s impact and help people build safety, grounding, and coping skills. Solution-focused therapy is another core element, offering short-term, goal-oriented strategies that identify practical steps and small changes to move toward desired outcomes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is done together. The therapist will explore needs, preferences, and goals and then recommend or adapt methods so the work feels collaborative and targeted to what matters most to the client.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while working with licensed professionals and therapists.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English