About Jennifer
Jennifer Malkin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on common struggles such as anxiety, depression, stress, relationship concerns, and ADHD. Jennifer aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters to them and make small, practical changes.
She emphasizes a collaborative relationship. Sessions focus on clarifying goals, identifying strengths, and trying strategies that fit daily life. Jennifer uses straightforward feedback and gentle accountability to help clients follow through on intentions.
Background and approach
Her background includes a master’s degree in counseling and earlier training in education and psychology. She has practiced broadly across mood, relationship, parenting, and trauma-related issues, and has twenty years of experience supporting people through life transitions and complicated emotions. Jennifer draws on several approaches in session, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
She tailors methods to each person rather than applying a single template. In practical terms, she helps people work on communication problems, codependency, caregiving stress, grief, anger, and areas like money or career concerns. The aim is to build skills that make day-to-day life easier and more rewarding.
People who prefer a direct but empathetic style often feel a good fit. Jennifer balances action-oriented suggestions with careful listening to meet each client’s goals.
How her approaches work online
Jennifer uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients create concrete changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that reflect personal values, which can help with motivation and life transitions.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. She approaches treatment collaboratively, asking about goals and preferences and then testing techniques together. If something doesn’t fit, the plan is adjusted so clients learn what helps them most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full sessions when face-to-face interaction matters, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or continuing work between live sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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