About Jennifer
Jennifer Maguire is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. She draws on many approaches to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or exhausted. Her style is warm, interactive, and focused on listening so people feel heard from the start.
She combines body-centered somatic work with practical talk therapies. Sessions often include noticing how stress shows up in the body and pairing that with skills to shift thoughts and actions.
Background and approach
This lets people address anxiety, trauma, addiction, grief, and burnout in ways that feel grounded and manageable. Jennifer uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and choose actions that match their values. Attachment-based ideas guide work on intimacy, relationship patterns, and healing connection wounds.
Client-centered and supportive strategies shape a respectful, strengths-based partnership in every session. Over her career she has guided people through life changes, parenting strain, career stress, chronic illness, and mood difficulties. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, body image, abandonment wounds, and codependency.
Her approach balances skill-building with attention to personal history and present safety. Jennifer helps each person build a practical plan. That may include short-term problem solving or longer work on patterns and roots of suffering.
She aims to make therapy clear, direct, and useful so people can move toward more enjoyable and stable days.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions and stress feel in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, breathing, and grounding practices while also talking through reactions and patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action; it helps clients notice painful thoughts and choose meaningful steps despite them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to build practical skills for anxiety, depression, and habit change.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to figure out which methods feel useful for the person’s goals and preferences. Sessions are shaped together, so tools are chosen that fit each person’s life and readiness.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier access. Video calls let therapists observe posture, facial cues, and breathing while guiding somatic exercises. Phone sessions can be useful for focused conversation, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, homework, or ongoing skill practice between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent work going over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English