Jennifer Pias, LMHC

Jennifer Pias is a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Her style is warm and direct and she aims to build trust quickly so people feel comfortable talking about what matters.

Jennifer uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy while staying grounded in a client-centered way of working. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test new behaviors, and develop skills for emotion regulation. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices when stronger emotion management skills are needed.

Clients often come for help with relationship concerns, parenting strain, work stress, addiction issues, sleep problems, self-esteem, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people managing mood disorders, ADHD-related struggles, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused. Jennifer helps set clear, achievable steps so progress can be measured between meetings. She balances practical exercises with room to reflect on longstanding patterns and values.

Jennifer practices from New York and offers multiple online session formats. She speaks English and combines evidence-informed strategies with a straightforward, empathetic presence to guide people toward the changes they want.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Jennifer draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete exercises to practice between sessions. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and obsessive patterns.

She also uses client-centered techniques to keep sessions focused on the person's priorities, listening closely and shaping treatment around individual goals. This approach helps when people want a supportive space to clarify values or meaning in life.

Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when stronger emotion regulation and distress-tolerance tools are needed. DBT-based exercises teach practical ways to cope with intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer will discuss goals and try methods together to see what fits best for each person. That collaborative process helps adjust techniques over time based on what is most helpful.

Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use tools that match personal preferences.