Jennifer Stephens
Compassionate counselor blending CBT and practical skills
LPC Alabama
- Experience
- 22 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Relationship, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Jennifer
Jennifer Stephens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of clinical experience who integrates cognitive behavioral techniques with compassionate, client-centered care. She focuses on helping people manage depression, anxiety, addictions, and relationship challenges while also addressing related concerns like self-esteem, grief, and parenting struggles.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical skills-building with attention to personal values and life goals. Her work spans a broad range of issues including trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related problems, plus additional areas such as attachment issues, codependency, and gender dysphoria.
Jennifer emphasizes communication skills, emotion regulation, and coping strategies that support recovery and day-to-day functioning. She aims to create an affirming space where clients can explore identity, process difficult experiences, and develop sustainable ways to move forward.
Based in Alabama, Jennifer combines solution-focused strategies, narrative methods, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-based work to tailor treatment to each client’s needs. She offers a collaborative therapeutic relationship that centers the client’s strengths and priorities while providing practical tools for change.
Approaches to Online Care and What They Offer
Jennifer commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build concrete skills for managing symptoms like anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) complements that work by focusing on values-based action and learning new ways to respond to difficult emotions rather than trying to eliminate them. Client-Centered Therapy provides a foundation of empathy and nonjudgmental listening that supports change at the client’s own pace.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jennifer will work together with each person to explore which combination of strategies matches their goals, preferences, and life context, adjusting methods over time as needs evolve. The therapeutic relationship and mutual planning guide the selection of techniques and pace of work.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from home. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver structured interventions, reflective conversations, and between-session tools in ways that accommodate different comfort levels and schedules.
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Experience
22+ years
Licensed
Alabama, Nevada, Oregon, Texas
Languages
English