- Warm and practical
- Goal focused
- Mindfulness informed
About Jennifer
Jennifer Kempner is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She focuses on self esteem alongside stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, depression, and other life challenges. Her style is warm and practical, and she aims to help people feel heard and understood from the first session.
She uses a client-centered foundation, which means sessions begin with what brought someone in. Together she and the client set short-term and long-term goals to guide their work. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at small, useful changes that fit everyday life.
Jennifer draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them. Mindfulness practices and solution-focused steps are woven in when they help move someone forward. She adjusts methods to match each person’s needs rather than applying a single recipe.
Her background includes work across many settings and with a wide range of concerns such as ADHD, LGBT issues, trauma, parenting stress, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and career questions. She also brings attention to themes like forgiveness, life purpose, and self-love when people want that focus.
Sessions start by talking about current concerns and priorities. The early meetings establish goals and a plan for how to reach them. Jennifer aims to make therapy useful and manageable so people can bring what they learn into daily life.
She uses a client-centered foundation, which means sessions begin with what brought someone in. Together she and the client set short-term and long-term goals to guide their work. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at small, useful changes that fit everyday life.
Jennifer draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them. Mindfulness practices and solution-focused steps are woven in when they help move someone forward. She adjusts methods to match each person’s needs rather than applying a single recipe.
Her background includes work across many settings and with a wide range of concerns such as ADHD, LGBT issues, trauma, parenting stress, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and career questions. She also brings attention to themes like forgiveness, life purpose, and self-love when people want that focus.
Sessions start by talking about current concerns and priorities. The early meetings establish goals and a plan for how to reach them. Jennifer aims to make therapy useful and manageable so people can bring what they learn into daily life.