About Jennifer
Jennifer Palacios is a licensed marriage and family therapist in New Jersey. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and ADHD concerns. Her approach is calm and practical, focused on making small, clear changes that add up over time.
She listens for repeated patterns that keep people stuck. Then she helps clients slow down and name what is happening. Sessions focus on improving communication, reducing blame, and finding choices that feel safer and more effective.
Background and approach
Jennifer works in a collaborative, trauma-informed way. She draws on family systems thinking to look at how relationships shape behavior. She uses ideas from Gottman and narrative approaches to help people tell different stories about themselves and their relationships.
Clients often come when arguments repeat, closeness feels blocked, or past hurts keep coming up. Jennifer helps people make sense of those patterns and try small experiments to change them. She emphasizes clarity, emotional safety, and practical skills that can be used between sessions.
Her practice balances gentle exploration with direct tools for communication and problem solving. Jennifer aims to move at a pace that feels manageable. She helps people rebuild connection, set boundaries, and make decisions that fit their values.
Approaches that guide online work
Jennifer often uses family systems ideas to look at how patterns develop between people and affect daily interactions. This approach helps identify repeating cycles and practical places to try small changes. Narrative-informed work helps clients separate themselves from painful stories and create alternative ways to describe their behavior and relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions allow flexibility across formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. Video is useful for skill practice and reading nonverbal cues, while phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Chat and messaging can help with quick problem-solving and keeping progress steady between scheduled sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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