Jenna Lapointe

Jenna Lapointe welcomes people who are taking the step to address their mental health and recognizes the strength it takes to seek change. She emphasizes an approach that pairs empathetic understanding with practical behavioral work, helping clients explore thoughts, feelings, and patterns in a non-judgmental space so they can better understand what their responses are trying to accomplish.

By framing cognitive, somatic, and behavioral responses in this way, Jenna supports clients in making sense of difficult or surprising behaviors and then practices concrete skills that can be used outside of sessions to meet those needs in healthier ways. Her style is client-centered and eclectic, selecting interventions based on the changes each person wants to make.

She commonly uses process-oriented methods such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, assertiveness training, and behavioral modification techniques as needed.

Jenna works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and depression, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family conflicts, grief and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping disorders, parenting and anger management challenges, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

She holds clinical social work licenses in both West Virginia and Illinois and has provided outpatient mental health therapy since completing her education. Jenna earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Washington College in 2009 and a master’s degree in social work from West Virginia University in 2011. With 13 years of clinical experience, she aims to help people build integrated, sustainable changes and is glad anyone has chosen to begin working on their well-being.