About Jennifer
Jennifer Fitkin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with two decades of clinical experience. She practices in Iowa and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to therapy. Jennifer focuses on helping people manage common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
She also helps with relationship and family concerns, addictions, grief, and life transitions. Jennifer trained at the University of Northern Iowa, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work.
Background and approach
Over 20 years she worked in varied settings including residential treatment, community programs for foster care and juvenile justice, and correctional rehabilitation. Her background includes roles from staff therapist to clinical director, so she understands both hands-on care and program leadership. Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors. She uses mindfulness exercises and attachment-based ideas to address how relationships affect mood and coping. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Jennifer helps clients set small, doable goals and track progress between meetings. She also emphasizes sleep, movement, and nutrition as part of overall wellbeing and will discuss concrete habits to support therapy work. Outside of practice she enjoys hiking, backpacking, paddleboarding, and CrossFit.
Her dog Boomer sometimes joins online sessions for a brief, lighthearted moment. This mix of clinical experience and everyday common sense shapes how she helps people navigate change.
How therapy methods translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. In practice this often means noticing unhelpful thoughts, choosing a value-based step, and practicing it between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on recognizing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and testing new, more helpful ways of acting. That can include simple experiments, habit changes, and short exercises to try before the next meeting. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that supports readiness for change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening a person's own reasons to move forward.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as needs change.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work through skills and body language; phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or fit into a busy day with less bandwidth; live chat and messaging can support quick check-ins or continuing a plan between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and fit therapy into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Texas
- Languages
- English
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