Jennifer Brown, LICSW

Jennifer Brown is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. She greets clients with a calm, direct style and focuses on clear communication and practical steps. Her first priority is helping people feel heard and start solving the problems that brought them to therapy.

Jennifer has a decade of clinical experience and a Masters degree from Columbia University. Early work in psychiatric emergency rooms and inpatient units shaped her ability to respond to high-intensity situations. She has spent the last several years focused on outpatient therapy with individuals and partners.

Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered methods to explore how early relationships affect current patterns. Mindfulness and elements of dialectical work appear when learning emotional regulation skills is useful.

Sessions tend to emphasize improving communication, reducing symptoms, and strengthening coping skills. For relationship difficulties she helps people change interaction patterns and practice different ways of talking about hard topics. For anxiety, mood, and trauma-related concerns she focuses on concrete strategies people can use between sessions.

Jennifer works with a wide range of concerns including grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating issues, bipolar spectrum concerns, attention challenges, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care dynamics, attachment questions, separation and divorce, and parenting strains.

Practical approaches for online therapy

Jennifer commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. CBT often involves specific skill practice and short homework tasks so people can try new ways of thinking between sessions.

She also draws on attachment-based work, which looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in connections and trust. This approach can help people understand why they react a certain way in relationships and try more secure behaviors. Client-centered methods form the rest of her practice, offering a listening, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the conversation and shape goals.

Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals, try strategies together, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That way the work stays practical and focused on real-life change.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction, while phone calls can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing about experiences feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.