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Jennifer Cohen

Jennifer Cohen

LCSW · Florida

Practical, experience-based counseling for life transitions

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  • Supportive counseling
  • Goal focused
  • Adoption and foster care

About Jennifer

Jennifer Cohen is a Florida-based Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 18 years of experience. She has worked across school, foster care, and adoption settings and brings that background into her practice. She focuses on practical support for people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Jennifer works in straightforward, supportive counseling. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client. She helps people sort priorities, try new coping strategies, and rebuild confidence step by step.

Clients often bring concerns about relationships, parenting, attention differences, or communication problems. Jennifer uses clear tools to address anger, compassion fatigue, and the strain that change can cause. She aims to help people make tangible progress between sessions.

Her approach draws on client-centered conversations, cognitive behavioral techniques, and solution-focused methods. That mix lets sessions shift between listening, skill-building, and short-term goal work depending on need.

Jennifer encourages a collaborative process. Together with each person she identifies realistic goals and practical steps. The emphasis is on usable strategies that fit daily life and on building strengths as challenges change.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client's perspective and priorities, with the therapist following the client's lead to understand concerns and build trust. This approach is helpful when someone needs space to talk through feelings and decide what matters most.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and learning practical coping skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on immediate goals and small steps toward them, making it a good fit when a person wants quick, concrete progress on specific problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made and circumstances change.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. Discuss scheduling, session length, and how to use tools like brief skill practice or homework during sessions. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, support quick check-ins, and allow focused skill practice between meetings. These practical benefits help therapy fit ordinary life without requiring major changes.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

Relationship issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Adoption and foster careAutism and Asperger SyndromeCommunication problemsFamily problemsYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Solution-Focused Therapy

Experience

18+ years

Credentials

Florida

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What issues does she address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

How would you describe her therapy style?

She uses a supportive, practical style that balances listening with concrete tools and short-term goals drawn from client-centered, CBT, and solution-focused ideas.

How much experience does she have?

She has 18 years of experience working with youth, adults, and families in schools, foster care, and adoption-related settings.

What are her credentials and where is she located?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - practicing in Florida.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How are session costs handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What steps do I take to begin?

Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

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