Jennifer Kirkpatrick
Experienced counselor focused on practical change
LPC, LPCC Ohio
- Experience
- 7 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Jennifer
Jennifer Kirkpatrick is a licensed counselor based in Ohio who works with a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, and issues around intimacy.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing eating and sleeping problems, anger, career transitions, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among other areas. With seven years of clinical experience, she brings focused support for complex presentations such as obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic attacks, dissociation, personality and mood disorders, process addictions, and post-traumatic stress.
Her style emphasizes collaboration and practical tools. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered principles to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build actionable skills.
Jennifer also integrates mindfulness practices and elements from motivational interviewing and the Gottman Method when those approaches fit a person's goals. Her aim is to create a trusting, nonjudgmental space where treatment is tailored to each individual's strengths and priorities.
Jennifer holds LPC and LPCC credentials and offers care delivered with attention to measurable goals and real-world coping strategies. She frames therapy as a joint effort to explore options, reduce distress, and support forward movement toward meaningful change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Jennifer uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts and build concrete behavioral strategies; this approach often helps with anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and compulsive behaviors. She also practices Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on empathetic listening and creating a nonjudgmental space so clients can explore their concerns and draw on their own strengths. When relationship issues arise, elements of the Gottman Method are used to improve communication and practical interaction patterns between partners.
Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Jennifer works with each person to decide which combination of approaches fits their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring to therapy. She tailors plans to individual needs and adjusts techniques as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can increase flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to practice skills between sessions while fitting therapy into real-life schedules.
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Experience
7+ years
Licensed
Michigan, Ohio
Languages
English