Jenna Lapointe

I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Washington College in 2009 and a master’s degree in social work from West Virginia university in 2011. I provided mental health therapy in an in-person outpatient setting for the last ten years before making the change to remote therapy four years ago, and I have had the pleasure of meeting and helping a wide variety of people learn to understand, process through, and manage a range of symptoms. I am currently licensed as a LICSW in West Virginia, and LCSW in Illinois, and a telehealth mental health provider in South Carolina and Florida.

I believe the cornerstone to therapy is empathetic understanding paired with proactive behavioral change. In my practice, I use a client-centered, eclectic approach. I have experience in several empirically-proven therapeutic modalities, and I choose which modalities to use based on what changes you, the client, decide you want to make in your life. I tend towards more process-oriented approaches, including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Eye Movement Desensitizing and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR). I have found that these therapies reprocess symptoms clients are experiencing with their somatic, right-brain processing centers and their verbal, left-brain processing centers simultaneously, leading to more integrated and sustainable life changes in a shorter amount of time. I also have experience in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Assertiveness Training, and Behavioral Modification techniques. If this type of therapy resonates with you, I would love to work with you. Regardless of whether you choose me as your therapist, I am very happy you have chosen to start proactively working on your mental wellbeing, and I wish you the best on your journey!

In our first session, we will get to know each other; I tend to ask both general questions about your life to get to know you as an iindividual, as well as specific questions regarding what brings you to therapy at this time. Starting from the first session, we will create a nonjudgemental place in which to explore your emotional, mental and behavioral experiences with curiousity, allowing you to grow deeper understanding of why they occur and what they are trying to provide. With that greater understanding, we will then break down techniques and skills that you can use to make different choices to create meaningful changes in your life.