About Jennifer
Jennifer Schweinhard is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, relationship worries, and issues around self-esteem and addiction. She also supports people dealing with grief, career transitions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and questions about sexuality and intimacy.
Jennifer uses straightforward, practical work in sessions. She likes to build plans together that use a person’s existing strengths.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct but respectful, and she aims to make the room a place to speak honestly without judgment. Her background includes community mental health and independent practice. She completed a Master of Psychology in Marriage and Family Therapy and held a Child Mental Health Specialist designation while supervising provisional licensees, interns, and newer clinicians.
That mix of settings shaped her flexible approach to care. In therapy she blends attachment-based thinking with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral strategies. She also draws on motivational interviewing and narrative ideas when they fit the work.
Sessions often focus on clear goals, skill-building, and making small changes that add up. People who work with her can expect collaborative goal setting and regular check-ins on progress. She describes the process as honest and steady, with attention to both immediate coping and longer-term patterns.
The aim is practical change that feels manageable day to day.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior, and it helps people understand patterns that repeat in close relationships. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and reflecting; it creates space for a person to set their own pace and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and unhelpful thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This means checking in early, trying techniques, and adjusting the plan based on what is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face work from different locations. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief updates, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into work, family, and everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English