Jennifer Malott, LCSW

Jennifer Malott is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years providing clinical therapy in Indiana. She brings a calm, down-to-earth manner and focuses on practical steps clients can use each week. Jennifer aims to create a relaxed space where people feel comfortable talking about hard things and setting reachable goals.

She has long experience helping people with depression, anxiety, bipolar concerns, and work-related stress. Earlier work as a vocational counselor gave her experience addressing job and career challenges alongside mental health concerns. That background helps when stress from work affects mood, relationships, or daily functioning.

Jennifer uses straightforward, goal-focused work. Sessions are collaborative - she listens, offers tools, and helps you try different strategies between meetings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take meaningful action.

Mindfulness and client-centered techniques are also part of her style, so sessions can include grounding exercises and a conversational tone. She supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, addiction issues, trauma and abuse, and attention-related challenges among other concerns.

Her approach blends practical planning with a steady, nonjudgmental presence. Clients who want clear steps, calm guidance, and tools they can use outside sessions may find this approach helpful.

Practical therapies you can use online

Jennifer commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress and testing small changes to break those patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes clarifying personal values and learning to accept difficult feelings while taking committed action toward what matters.

She also uses client-centered techniques to keep the work grounded in each person’s priorities, offering a listening, nonjudgmental approach while helping set concrete goals. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process - she will work with each person to try methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat sessions are useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it possible to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and daily demands.