Jennifer Cole, LMSW

Jennifer Cole is an LMSW with eight years of clinical experience. She guides people through transitions and painful moments. She welcomes conversations about anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and life changes. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping people take tangible first steps forward.

She focuses on healing from the past while managing the present. That includes work on trauma and abuse, grief, and struggles related to relationships or identity. She also supports people facing ADHD, addiction challenges, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and issues tied to aging or adoption and foster care.

In sessions she draws on approaches that center on relationships and personal meaning. Conversations address how attachment patterns shape current feelings and how thoughts and behaviors interact. She also uses techniques to name emotions, build coping skills, and explore deeper personal themes when those are useful.

Jennifer describes her work as collaborative. She helps people notice what they want to change, set achievable steps, and practice new ways of responding. She aims to create a space where clients can try things out, reflect, and adjust at a pace that feels manageable.

Her practice often supports people navigating midlife questions and shifts in identity or purpose. If someone wants to start, Jennifer asks them to make an initial appointment and she will walk alongside them through the early steps of change.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Many of her methods focus on relationships, patterns, and day-to-day coping. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current ways of relating and helps people notice repeated patterns that affect close relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room, prioritizing listening, acceptance, and the client's own goals for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems running and teaches practical skills to test and change those patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will discuss what feels most useful and tailor sessions to a person's goals, preferences, and needs. That planning is collaborative and may shift over time as progress is made or new concerns emerge.

Confirm the current session formats before booking, as those details are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, allowing shorter check-ins during a work break or eliminating travel time. It also gives flexibility for people who prefer not to use video or who need a lower-bandwidth option. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, emotion-focused work, and skill practice to the online setting so the core therapeutic tasks continue despite the change in location.