About Jennifer
Jennifer Covington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She speaks plainly and works with each person to make everyday life feel more manageable. Jennifer focuses on practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and then respond differently. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered conversation to shape each session.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to what the person needs in that moment and over time. Jennifer has 13 years of experience and practices in North Carolina as an LCSW. She supports people dealing with depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep or eating struggles, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career stress.
Additional areas include attachment and adoption concerns, caregiver stress, body image, and coping with disasters. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people set concrete goals, learn coping skills, and try small changes between sessions.
Conversations can include mindfulness practices, behavior change work, and noticing bodily signs of stress. Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s life. Jennifer offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing care easier for busy lives.
How somatic and evidence-based methods translate online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice physical signals like tension, breath changes, or tightness and learn simple ways to respond. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, trauma responses, and body-focused concerns by bringing attention to sensations and pairing them with grounding actions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while identifying personal values to guide action. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by helping people choose steps that matter to them despite discomfort.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful cycles. CBT is often effective for mood, anxiety, sleep, and coping with day-to-day challenges.
Finding the right way of working is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, and then try approaches together. Adjustments are made over time so the plan fits the person’s life and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility makes it easier to keep up with regular sessions, practice skills between meetings, and fit therapy into a busy schedule. Licensed professionals can guide somatic awareness and skills training using these formats, adapting exercises so they work well at a distance.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English