About Jennifer
Jennifer Such brings 14 years of clinical social work experience to her practice, drawing on a blend of evidence-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma.
Background and approach
As an LCSW licensed in multiple states, she emphasizes a compassionate, nonjudgmental therapeutic stance that encourages clients to identify strengths and practical steps toward their goals. Her work integrates techniques from EMDR, CBT, DBT, acceptance-based strategies, and client-centered care to tailor interventions to each person’s situation.
She has supported clients facing a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, grief, intimacy-related difficulties, sleep problems, parenting challenges, career transitions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication and control problems, and coping with disasters.
Jennifer frames therapy as a collaborative process in which clients and therapist work side by side to build coping skills, process distressing experiences, and pursue meaningful change. Based in Missouri, she offers flexible session formats and approaches therapy with practical tools alongside empathic listening, aiming to meet people where they are and support sustainable progress over time.
Integrating Evidence-Based Methods into Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take committed action even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mood concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps reprocess distressing memories and reduce the emotional intensity associated with past events.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to blend or adjust methods such as ACT, CBT, DBT, or EMDR so the plan fits the individual rather than applying a single technique rigidly.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility and accessibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility limitations. These formats allow ongoing skill-building, session continuity during life transitions, and multiple ways to engage with a licensed professional based on comfort and scheduling needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, Texas
- Languages
- English