Jennifer 'Jenna' Nevins, LMHC
Warm somatic-informed counselor for everyday struggles
About Jennifer
Jennifer 'Jenna' Nevins is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She also supports people coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Jenna works from Iowa and speaks English.
Jenna believes healing starts with a steady, respectful connection. She aims to build a trusting relationship first, then use that as the base for change.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs in the moment. Her approach blends body-centered work with relational and practical methods. Somatic ideas are used alongside Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ways of relating, plus exercises from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches.
Jenna mixes talking, noticing body responses, and simple skill practice to help people manage symptoms and understand why those responses happen. She focuses on helping people make sense of their experience rather than only masking symptoms. That might mean tracking patterns from past relationships, learning grounding and emotion-regulation skills, or finding new choices that fit daily life.
The aim is steady improvement you can notice between sessions. Jenna has five years of professional experience as an LMHC, license IA LMHC 099339. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions.
New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy process.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing exercises, and tracking physical responses to help with anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns that formed in relationships and how they affect current connections. This can help people understand why they react a certain way and practice different ways of relating within sessions and at home.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s goals lead the work. The therapist offers empathy and helps people find their own solutions rather than imposing a fixed plan.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Jenna will work collaboratively to see which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Over time she adjusts the mix of somatic noticing, relational exploration, and skills practice to match progress and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions can suit quiet check-ins, and live chat or text messaging provide ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and practice new skills in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English