Jennifer Hayden, LPC

Jennifer Hayden is a licensed professional counselor with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a range of other life challenges.

She combines straightforward conversation with practical tools. Jennifer uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on client-centered care and mindfulness to help people feel heard and learn skills that reduce distress.

Jennifer has significant experience addressing substance use and addiction-related problems alongside mental health concerns. She also works with people on issues like body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and complicated family of origin patterns. Her approach keeps the whole person in view rather than focusing only on symptoms.

In sessions she uses EMDR, an approach that pairs focused memory work with guided attention, when it seems helpful for trauma or addiction-related memories. She offers motivational interviewing techniques when people are weighing change or feeling unsure about next steps.

Clients can expect an adaptive, collaborative process. Jennifer aims to reduce stigma around diagnoses and to support recovery that fits each person’s life. She brings calm persistence and practical strategies to help people move through difficult moments and build coping skills for the future.

Therapeutic approaches plus flexible online care

Jennifer commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which focuses on reprocessing distressing memories and can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and addiction-linked memories. In addition, client-centered work and mindfulness practices are used to create space for people to feel understood and learn self-calming skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there they try one method or combine elements so the plan fits the person’s life and needs.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give people options that fit their day. Video lets for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it simpler to schedule appointments, maintain continuity during life changes, and access care from different locations.