Jennifer McFarlin, LMFT
Compassionate therapist focused on relationships and body awareness
About Jennifer
Jennifer McFarlin is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and issues with self-esteem or body image. She supports those coping with trauma, grief, eating and food-related problems, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Jennifer emphasizes practical steps and clear conversation so people can start feeling steadier sooner.
She trained at the University of Florida, earning a Master’s in Counselor Education and Specialist in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2012.
Background and approach
Jennifer completed intern hours at a mental health hospital and later worked as a Primary Therapist at an eating disorder treatment center, where she led individual and group work and collaborated with families. In 2020 she opened a independent practice focused on relationship and attachment concerns. Her approach often looks at how early family experiences shape beliefs and current patterns.
Jennifer combines somatic awareness with attachment-focused work and other therapies to help people notice how feelings show up in the body and in relationships. Sessions include skills for coping and communication, and also time spent tracing deeper beliefs that keep symptoms returning. She works from a systems perspective, noticing how partners and family of origin influence current struggles.
The goal is to move toward more supported ways of connecting. Jennifer brings twelve years of clinical experience as an LMFT and uses straightforward, compassionate guidance. She aims to help people leave therapy with clearer thinking, stronger relationships, and better tools for daily life.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and learn simple ways to regulate physical sensations that drive anxiety or shame. This approach can be useful for trauma reactions, stress, and eating-related concerns.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at core wounds, attachment styles, and how people relate in partnerships and families to build more stable connections and clearer communication.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes to create measurable shifts in mood and functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these tools to teach skills, do check-ins, and guide deeper conversations in a practical, accessible way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English