Jenna Van Houten, LPCC

Jenna Van Houten is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with six years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, stress, and mood disorders. Jenna also supports those facing trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, grief, and questions about identity and sexuality.

Jenna uses practical talk and collaborative problem solving in sessions. She favors approaches grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and also draws on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), emotionally-focused work, and client-centered ideas. Her style is conversational and down-to-earth, mixing education, empathy, and occasional humor to make hard topics easier to address.

She aims to create space for people to tell their stories and notice what matters most to them. Jenna emphasizes awareness and honesty as first steps toward change. Sessions often include skill practice, values-focused goals, and clear steps to try between meetings.

Her past work included youth, young adults, and people impacted by substance use, legal involvement, and family disruption. That background informs how she approaches complex family of origin issues, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care topics, and communication problems.

Jenna works with adults on career questions, life transitions, self-esteem, guilt and shame, and finding life purpose. She tries to help people reconnect with their sense of self, build healthier relationships, and move toward daily life that feels more authentic.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps with anxiety, depression, mood swings, and unhelpful behavior patterns by teaching concrete skills and homework to practice between sessions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, centers on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. This approach is useful for stress, life transitions, identity questions, and persistent emotional pain.

Jenna approaches the choice of method as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan so it fits the person and their life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which adds flexibility for busy schedules. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can suit shorter check-ins, skill practice, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, and daily demands.