What it’s like to work with me as your therapist
Aug 5
Written By Jennifer Vincent, LMHC, CSAYC
Sometimes meeting a therapist for the first time can be scary and normally you pick a therapist based on a picture among a million other online therapist platforms with a little bio. It’s exhausting yet picking the right therapist is so important.
So, I wanted to take a minute and share a little bit about me and what it’s like to work with me.
Meet me! Your no BS, boundary expert, plant loving, dog momma, brave life therapist.
Let’s go! My name is Jennifer Vincent. I am a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana. Born and raised on the east coast… go Red Sox.
I am not your typical formal head nodding therapist. Growing up, I very much needed and wanted someone to talk to that could be honest but also had a softness to them, a kind but directness. That person wasn’t made available to me as a teen. So that is one of the main reasons I went into this field of helping others.
My style of therapy is very important to me. I really value learning about each person I get to work with. I don’t see individuals as a person that needs to get diagnosed based on their symptoms. To me, you are more than a diagnosis. Together, we can (and definitely will) laugh and cry and even cuss. All of these can be a very healing part in the therapy room.
The therapy room doesn’t have to be boring or only about telling you to breathe more. I truly believe people have the ability to heal themselves. I see it in people every single day. Sometimes all it takes is just a little bit of professional guidance and support to get through this difficult time in your life.
Whether you’re a teen, adult, parent, you deserve to have a safe space to talk through your struggles.
I have expertise and enjoy working with adults and teens struggling with relationship conflicts, depression, family dysfunction (ACOA), life challenges, grief, and all those in the queer community.
With over a decade of experience with many different populations from juvenile probation to nonprofit domestic violence and sexual assault clinics, LGBTQ+ organizations all working with individuals and families experiencing abuse, trauma, depression, relationship struggles, coming out and identity struggles and many others. I believe every person has a fair chance and can be helped.
Empathy and compassion can go hand in hand with humor. Who also said humor can’t go with crying? And while we’re at it we can think together and get creative about problem solving. For me, it’s not just giving my clients a strict set of rules to follow. I love including my clients in finding the right guidance so they can speak their mind with what they are most comfortable doing.
If you care about the more clinical stuff like my treatment modality, I practice from a generally Psychodynamic stand point and I pull the works of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and inner child healing.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Adolescents 13+ and adults
Anxiety and excessive worry
Trauma treatment including Accelerated resolution therapy (ART)
Family trauma and dysfunction
Self-compassion and being hard on yourself
Mood dysregulation
People-pleasing and being the “fixer”
The everyday difficulties that hold you back