- Years in practice
- 11
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Jennifer
Jennifer Bickford is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who focuses on helping people regain balance when life feels overwhelming. She uses a warm, person-focused style to listen, reflect, and help clients notice strengths they already have. Her approach aims to make small, practical shifts that add up over time.
Jennifer draws on client-centered work to create an open space where people can be honest about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are offered to help reduce reactivity and build calm in daily life. Across 11 years of practice, Jennifer has worked with a wide range of concerns.
She regularly supports people coping with relationship strain, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. She also addresses issues such as self-esteem, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, attachment worries, and communication problems. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Jennifer uses reflective questions, gentle challenges, and practical exercises to help clients test new ways of relating to themselves and others. She helps people identify small steps they can take between sessions to build momentum. Based in Minnesota, Jennifer provides support for parenting-related stress alongside other personal concerns.
She meets people where they are and focuses on clear, doable strategies rather than long lists of technical terms.
What Jennifer works with
Everything Jennifer lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Jennifer helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jennifer lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven online care for everyday challenges
Jennifer combines client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice what matters and then try small changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following each person’s lead so sessions feel grounded in their experience. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering straightforward tools to reduce anxiety, shift low mood, and improve coping skills.She also uses mindfulness practices to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness can be helpful for stress, compassion fatigue, and managing intense emotions by training attention and simple breathing exercises. Together these approaches give both understanding and practical steps to test between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means trying exercises, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and guided exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief reflections during a busy day. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or care schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
Questions people ask about Jennifer
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, relationship strain, and parenting concerns among other struggles.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm and interactive, using client-centered listening with reflective questions and practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 11 years of experience working with a range of concerns and life situations.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, credentialed as MN LPCC, and is based in Minnesota.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and starting therapy work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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