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Terry Jensen, LCSW

Based in New Jersey Online sessions

Experienced LCSW focused on practical change

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Years in practice
30
Credentials
LCSW
Licensed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Relationship issues
Focus
Grief
About

About Terry

Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of practice based in New Jersey. She offers a calm, straightforward style and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Her sessions aim to connect past experiences to present patterns so clients can move forward with clearer choices.

She combines behavioral strategies with psychodynamic ideas to look at how history shapes current reactions. That mix allows practical steps to change habits while also naming deeper feelings that influence behavior.

Background and approach

Terry often uses mindfulness to slow down strong reactions and make decision-making easier. Terry has experience in foster care and healthcare settings and has worked with people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, loss, and trauma. She helps clients who are coping with grief, changing roles, or intense emotions like anger and shame.

Her background includes work with adoption and family-of-origin issues. In sessions she treats each person as an individual and tailors interventions to their goals. Conversations are respectful and direct, aimed at helping clients test small changes and notice what works.

She encourages practical experiments between sessions so progress can be seen in daily life. Terry works with adults across a wide age range. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.

Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

Focus areas and approaches

What Terry works with

Everything Terry lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Terry helps people with.

Approaches Terry lists

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Online support

Approaches that guide online sessions

Terry frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to frame online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match what matters most. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, and responses to life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers concrete exercises to test beliefs and build new habits, which can help with depression, anxiety, and anger. Mindfulness practices are often added to both approaches to slow reactivity and increase awareness during ordinary moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work collaboratively to figure out what fits. Clients and therapist review goals, try methods, and adjust plans as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant to daily life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Chat or text messaging allows brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
Questions

Questions people ask about Terry

What concerns does Terry commonly address?

Terry helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She also works with issues like trauma, caregiver stress, anger, and self-esteem.

How would you describe Terry's therapeutic style?

Her approach blends behavioral work with psychodynamic reflection and mindfulness. Sessions emphasize identifying patterns, trying practical steps, and noticing what changes.

What is Terry's professional background?

She has 30 years of clinical experience, including work in foster care and healthcare settings. Her practice includes supporting people through loss, chronic illness, and life transitions.

What credentials and location are listed?

Terry holds the credential LCSW as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and practices in New Jersey.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available online?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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