About Jennifer
Jennifer Garvin is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She also supports those facing parenting pressures, relationship strain, and challenges around identity and self-worth.
Her style is warm and direct. Sessions are conversational and practical. She listens first, then helps people set clear, achievable goals.
Treatment plans are developed together so the client stays involved in decisions.
Background and approach
Jennifer uses techniques from attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She applies cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness skills are taught to reduce rumination and increase calm in everyday moments.
She has worked with people dealing with addiction, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and body image concerns. Additional focus areas include coping with life changes, bipolar mood concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Jennifer practices in Indiana and holds the credential LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She aims to make therapy practical and reachable for busy lives.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they repeat certain behaviors in relationships and offers ways to form healthier connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical and works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by giving specific strategies to change daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, homework, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with regular work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English