Jennifer Spinner, LICSW, LCSW
Compassionate clinician who focuses on body and relationships
About Jennifer
Jennifer Spinner is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She offers calm, straightforward support and listens closely to what matters to each person. Sessions focus on improving everyday relationships, coping with stress, and finding clearer direction in life.
She draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches to address patterns in relationships and values-based action.
Background and approach
Cognitive techniques and client-centered listening are woven into sessions as needed. Jennifer has navigated major life challenges herself, including cancer and raising a child with special needs, and she uses that experience to bring practical empathy to conversations. She aims to validate feelings and help people feel understood before moving toward change.
Clients can expect a steady, nonjudgmental presence and help in creating a plan tailored to their goals. Her work covers a broad range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, body image, parenting strain, and career stress. She also supports people handling chronic illness, caregiving burdens, and relationship difficulties.
Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish to meet language needs. Jennifer practices in Florida and holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW. She will not provide letters for medical, work, school, or legal purposes.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
How somatic and acceptance approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice and name physical sensations linked to emotions, then use breath, movement, or grounding to shift how the body holds stress. It can be useful for anxiety, trauma symptoms, and chronic tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, purposeful steps even when hard feelings remain present. This approach supports decision making, motivation, and coping with change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early connection shapes current reactions, offering ways to build safer, more satisfying bonds.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to goals, preferences, and needs. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain momentum between sessions. Video sessions allow guided somatic awareness work, while chat and messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing encouragement.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship 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
- Florida, North Dakota, District of Columbia, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish