- Stress and anxiety
- Eating and body image
- Self esteem work
About Jennifer
Jennifer Johnson is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, struggling with eating and body image, or unsure about their life purpose. She also works with concerns around self-esteem and coping with major life changes.
Jennifer uses clear, direct conversation to map what feels stuck and what can change. Sessions focus on small, practical steps that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. She pays attention to how thoughts, behaviors, and relationships interact, and she talks through what choices might look like now.
Her approach includes addressing eating and food-related issues in concrete ways, and supporting people dealing with panic, obsessive thoughts, or social fears. She also helps clients who want to work on communication problems, control issues, and impulse-related behaviors.
Jennifer has experience with LGBTQ+ related concerns and with people trying to rebuild confidence after setbacks. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where client goals guide the work. She aims to help people test changes between sessions and notice what works in everyday life.
To begin, she asks people to identify a few manageable goals. Early sessions typically clarify patterns and set small experiments to try outside of sessions. Over time those experiments inform longer term choices about relationships, work, and personal priorities.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Jennifer draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and on testing small changes in daily life. Cognitive approaches help people identify and rework thought patterns that feed anxiety or low self-esteem, and are useful for panic, social anxiety, and obsessive thinking.Behavioral strategies address routines around eating, body image, and impulse control through gradual experiments and skill practice. These techniques break problems into manageable tasks and track what improves with each step.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jennifer collaborates with each person to select methods that fit their goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. She reviews what’s working and adjusts plans based on feedback and progress.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, and they can allow shorter check-ins or visual-only conversations when that is helpful. Many people find this flexibility helps them keep consistent appointments and apply changes to everyday life without major disruption.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
15+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, eating and body image issues, self-esteem struggles, and people coping with life changes including questions about life purpose.
How does she approach someone who feels stuck?
She uses straightforward conversation to identify patterns and sets small, practical steps to test between sessions. The focus is on what changes are realistic day-to-day.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of professional work experience as a counselor in clinical settings and private practice.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and practices from New York.
Can I work with her if I live outside the U.S.?
Sessions are offered to international clients; sessions are conducted in English.
What session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Confirm current session options with the booking process before scheduling.
How does payment work?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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