About Jennifer
Jennifer Paradysz is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) practicing in Massachusetts. She brings two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood challenges. Her work is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping clients feel steadier in daily life and relationships.
Jennifer focuses on trauma, complex trauma, and PTSD related to emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. She also supports people facing depression, ADHD, grief, divorce, parenting strain, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy.
Background and approach
Many clients seek her help for sleep problems, anger, addiction concerns, and family-of-origin issues. Her approach blends body-focused work with relational and cognitive tools. Somatic methods help people notice how stress shows up in the body and build new ways to respond.
Attachment-based ideas guide how connection and safety are rebuilt in relationships. Sessions use a client-centered stance that emphasizes strengths and collaboration. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
For trauma processing, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is available when appropriate. Jennifer holds a master’s degree from the University of New England and maintains a Massachusetts LICSW, MA LICSW 116254. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats, and she works with both local and international clients.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
How somatic and attachment approaches translate online
Somatic work helps people tune into bodily sensations and learn new ways to respond to stress. Online sessions can guide breathing, gentle movement, and grounding techniques that reduce tension and increase awareness. Attachment-based therapy looks at how relationships shape safety and trust and helps people repair connection patterns through conversation and reflective exercises.Jennifer will work collaboratively to find what fits each person. Together they will decide which approach or combination feels most useful for current goals. This collaborative process includes checking in about how techniques land in the body and adjusting pace and methods accordingly.
Online therapy offers flexibility in format. Clients can choose video calls for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging for ongoing check-ins or brief support. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting sessions into busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English