About Jennifer
Jennifer Pias is a New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD concerns, relationship strain, and life changes. Her manner is warm and direct, with an emphasis on building trust so people feel comfortable sharing what matters most.
Jennifer blends practical methods with empathic listening. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are driven by what each person needs, whether that means short-term problem solving or deeper work on longstanding patterns. Her background includes a master's degree in mental health counseling from The Sage Colleges and clinical work in a personal hospital setting in upstate New York.
She has experience seeing individual clients, conducting groups, and guiding people through transitions like divorce, caregiving strain, and career shifts. In sessions she helps people set clear, realistic goals. That might include improving sleep, reducing impulsivity, managing mood swings, or rebuilding self-esteem.
She also addresses issues such as addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related struggles. Jennifer usually combines teaching practical skills with space to reflect on values and life direction. She encourages small, achievable steps and checks in on progress.
People who want a collaborative therapist who listens and offers tangible tools often find this approach helpful.
How Jennifer brings therapeutic approaches online
Jennifer uses client-centered work to create a trusting space where a person feels heard and respected. This approach focuses on the client's goals and values and helps guide each conversation toward what matters most to the individual.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and some ADHD-related difficulties like organization and task follow-through.
Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used to teach concrete emotion regulation, distress-tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These tools are helpful when emotions feel overwhelming or impulsive actions are causing problems.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jennifer will work with each person to clarify goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps. She discusses options and adapts techniques to match personal needs and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in conversation. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, skill coaching, and flexible ways to follow up between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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