Jennifer Stephens

Jennifer Stephens, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of experience supporting people through challenging emotional and relational seasons. She works with individuals navigating concerns such as depression, anxiety, stress, self-esteem, anger, addiction and recovery, and the impact of trauma and abuse. Her work also includes support for relationship and intimacy-related issues, family dynamics, grief, parenting stress, coping with life changes, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, with an affirming approach for LGBT clients.

Jennifer brings a compassionate, validating style that makes room for each person’s story and pace. She often helps clients untangle patterns connected to shame, guilt, abandonment, attachment issues, and codependency, while strengthening communication and day-to-day coping skills. Her experience also includes support around workplace stress, young adult transitions, women’s issues, and complex situations where multiple concerns overlap, such as co-morbidity and drug and alcohol addiction.

In sessions, Jennifer emphasizes self-love, personal empowerment, and practical strategies that can be applied outside of therapy. She aims to create a steady, supportive space where clients can explore what has been weighing on them, clarify what matters most, and build healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. Whether the focus is relationships, family-of-origin concerns, sexuality or gender dysphoria, or specific emotional barriers that feel hard to move past, she offers consistent guidance grounded in experience and care.