About Jennifer
Jennifer Ladd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, parenting stress, ADHD, and related challenges. She writes and listens in a direct, compassionate way. Her approach aims to make day-to-day life calmer and more manageable.
She brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions. That background includes work with depression, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and trauma. She has offered both individual and group counseling and has experience with somatic symptoms and codependency.
Background and approach
Her style is warm, conversational, and interactive. She listens for the feelings and patterns beneath symptoms, then helps people notice what gets in the way of change. Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical rather than solely academic.
Jennifer blends several methods to fit each person’s needs. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She incorporates attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people clarify values and take action toward them. She treats each person with respect and sensitivity and focuses on strengths as much as problems. Treatment plans are tailored to goals, personality, and life demands.
The aim is clearer choices, fewer painful patterns, and more moments of calm. People often come to her looking for tools to manage daily stress, improve relationships, reduce anxiety, or work through trauma. She supports practical steps and ongoing learning so progress can continue between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jennifer commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside client-centered principles. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values to build a meaningful life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people change those interaction styles to feel safer in close relationships. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and goals for work.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She will work together with each person to weigh goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Plans are adjusted over time so methods match the client’s needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and hold deeper conversations when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible, ongoing support between calls and can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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