Jennifer Smith, LCSW
Indiana · 11 years in practice
Jennifer Smith is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 11 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Indiana
- 34008623A · expires April 2028
- NPI
- 1679173132 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Smith is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or struggling with depression, shame, addictions, and self-esteem. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She treats people with respect and sensitivity. Jennifer adapts sessions to each person instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at feelings and connection, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to help people find values and repair difficult relationship patterns. Clients often bring concerns about relationships, intimacy, parenting stress, grief, or the long-term effects of trauma and illness. Jennifer also works with people coping with compassion fatigue, codependency, money struggles, midlife shifts, and military-related issues.
She aims to help people notice what matters and make steady, manageable changes. Sessions are collaborative with clear goals and homework when that helps. Conversation, focused exercises, and behavioral experiments are common tools she uses in practice.
She explains options plainly and adjusts pace to each person's comfort. Jennifer conducts sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her approach emphasizes steady progress, practical skills, and building a more meaningful daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Jennifer lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Approaches Jennifer names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches you can use online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name core emotions and the patterns that keep them stuck, which can be useful for relationship hurt, grief, and shame. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches ways to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that reflect personal values, often helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic illness. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and helps people change repeated interaction patterns to feel safer and more connected.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That process is collaborative and can shift over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions let you work face-to-face from another location, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, pace, and communication style while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical skills.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and many other life challenges listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative, mixing emotion-focused work with practical exercises and goal-setting to help people make steady change.
What background and experience does she have?
She is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience in clinical practice in Indiana.
Where is she based and licensed?
She holds an LCSW license in Indiana and provides services from that state.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not work with international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
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