- Compassionate listener
- Focus on transitions
- Practical steps
About Jennifer
Jennifer Cole is an LMSW with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people who are facing big life changes and emotional pain find clearer direction. She invites clients to take a first step and walks alongside them through change.
Jennifer focuses on healing from the past and managing the present so people can work toward a different future. She often supports people coping with breakups, divorce, infidelity, sexual assault, and infertility. She also helps with anxiety, depression, attention challenges, low self-esteem, and recovery from trauma.
Her approach blends practical talk with attention to emotional bonds and patterns formed over time. Sessions look at how past relationships shape current feelings and behavior. Jennifer encourages small, doable changes and clear steps you can try between meetings.
She pays attention to life transitions that leave people feeling unmoored. That includes career shifts, grief, caregiving stress, and the challenges that come with aging or chronic illness. The work often focuses on building self-compassion and learning new ways to respond to stress.
Jennifer writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person. She aims to help clients reduce intense emotion, make practical changes, and find more steadiness day to day. If starting feels hard, she invites a short initial meeting to see if the fit feels right.
Jennifer focuses on healing from the past and managing the present so people can work toward a different future. She often supports people coping with breakups, divorce, infidelity, sexual assault, and infertility. She also helps with anxiety, depression, attention challenges, low self-esteem, and recovery from trauma.
Her approach blends practical talk with attention to emotional bonds and patterns formed over time. Sessions look at how past relationships shape current feelings and behavior. Jennifer encourages small, doable changes and clear steps you can try between meetings.
She pays attention to life transitions that leave people feeling unmoored. That includes career shifts, grief, caregiving stress, and the challenges that come with aging or chronic illness. The work often focuses on building self-compassion and learning new ways to respond to stress.
Jennifer writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person. She aims to help clients reduce intense emotion, make practical changes, and find more steadiness day to day. If starting feels hard, she invites a short initial meeting to see if the fit feels right.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefCareer difficultiesCompassion fatigue
Additional focus areas
AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryTrichotillomaniaVisually impairedWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Jungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy
Experience
8+ years
Credentials
Michigan
Languages
English
How attachment work and CBT translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can map those patterns and practice new ways of relating during conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If a particular way of working does not feel helpful, she will adjust the plan together with the client.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, since specific options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example by removing commute time or allowing a shorter check-in during a work break. It also lets people meet from whatever location best supports focused conversation and practice. Therapists and clients then use session time to learn practical skills, try new responses, and track small changes over time.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, coping with life changes, ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma and related struggles.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style combines listening with practical steps. Sessions look at past relationship patterns and try small changes that can be used between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of practice as a social work clinician and uses that experience to guide people through transitions and healing from past hurts.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker, and practices from Michigan.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and billing handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.