Jennie Albert

I am a licensed clinical social worker providing compassionate, evidence-informed therapy for adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, relationship difficulties, and stress-related symptoms.

I have an extensive history of working within the forensic social work arena prior to opening my psychotherapy practice. As a result, I have a nuanced understanding family systems and working with those impacted by complex trauma. It is important to work collaboratively with clients to create a supportive, nonjudgmental therapeutic environment where they can feel heard, understood, and empowered.

I also believe that emotional struggles often occur within the context of a person’s experiences, relationships, and nervous system responses. I aim to help clients better understand themselves, develop practical coping tools, strengthen emotional regulation, and build a greater sense of safety, confidence, and balance in their lives.

My experience is in supporting individuals dealing with anxiety, panic symptoms, developmental and relational trauma, emotional dysregulation, perfectionism, chronic stress, identity development, and difficulties related to family dynamics and boundaries. I value authenticity, curiosity, and helping clients move beyond survival mode toward greater flexibility, self-understanding, and emotional resilience.

I work from a trauma-informed and nervous-system-informed perspective, and I recognize that anxiety, overwhelm, emotional shutdown, hypervigilance, and relationship struggles are often connected to life experiences, stress, and learned survival responses. Rather than focusing on “what is wrong” with someone, I focus on understanding how their mind and body adapted to difficult experiences and how we can help create healthier patterns moving forward.

I integrate several evidence-based approaches depending on each client’s needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), somatic and grounding-based interventions, mindfulness, attachment-focused work, emotional regulation skills, and strengths-based therapy. I also help clients build practical coping strategies that can be used in everyday life — not just inside the therapy office.

My goal is to help clients feel more emotionally grounded, self-aware, confident, and capable of managing life’s challenges with greater flexibility and self-compassion.

The first session is designed to help us begin building a comfortable and supportive therapeutic relationship. You can expect a relaxed, conversational approach where we will talk about what brought you to therapy, your current stressors or symptoms, and personal history.

My priority during the first session is helping you feel emotionally safe, understood, and not judged. There is no pressure to share everything immediately or discuss difficult experiences before feeling ready. We move at a pace that feels manageable and collaborative.

I will also ask questions to better understand emotional patterns, coping strategies, relationships, stress responses, and any symptoms that may be affecting daily life. Together, we will begin identifying goals and discussing what approaches may be most helpful moving forward.