Jenna Van Houten , LPCC

Jenna Van Houten is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and challenges tied to identity and women's issues. She works with concerns such as grief, self-esteem, addiction, parenting stress, career questions, and mood disorders. Jenna writes plainly and listens closely while helping people sort through what feels stuck or overwhelming.

Her style is conversational and down-to-earth. Sessions often blend practical skills with time to reflect on how past experiences shaped current choices. Jenna emphasizes awareness, honesty, and small steps that build toward lasting change. She uses empathy and a touch of humor to make sessions feel less heavy.

Jenna draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior methods to teach emotion regulation, coping strategies, and values-based choices. She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to address relationship patterns and attachment concerns. Treatment plans are shaped around what the person says they want to work on.

Before independent practice, much of her work involved youth, young adults, and families affected by substance use, legal difficulties, and repeated trauma. That background informs her practical, trauma-aware way of talking about stress and recovery. She aims to create intentional space for people to be heard.

People who pick Jenna can expect collaboration rather than prescriptions. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and helps them reconnect to what matters. If the fit isn’t right, she will assist in finding a different therapist to continue the work.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching practical skills to stay engaged in meaningful activities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking patterns and builds concrete skills for managing mood, stress, and behavior. CBT is useful for depression, anxiety, and some mood disorders by offering step-by-step tools to change reactions.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Jenna will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps the person make steady progress.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat gives a quick check-in option, and text messaging supports ongoing processing between sessions. These formats provide flexibility for scheduling, shorter or longer check-ins, and different ways to practice skills between appointments.