Jennifer Groom-Reid , LCSW

Jennifer Groom-Reid is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people through tough life moments. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship pain. Jennifer pays attention to how culture and identity shape each person’s experiences. Her tone is compassionate and straightforward, so people feel seen and heard from the first session.

She often supports people facing big life changes such as divorce, loss, or midlife transitions. She also helps with patterns like codependency, abandonment fears, and control issues. Jennifer works with clients on practical concerns too, including money stress, career shifts, and sleep problems.

Her approach mixes acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral skills, and mindfulness. Sessions emphasize clear steps to manage symptoms and build toward meaningful values. She uses client-centered techniques to keep conversations focused on each person’s priorities.

Jennifer has experience addressing mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, as well as addiction and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, end-of-life matters, and family conflict. Intimacy-related issues and infidelity are part of the topics she commonly addresses.

People looking for help with women’s issues will find that she brings sensitivity and direct support to those concerns. Her work aims to make change feel doable, one small step at a time. If someone wants practical strategies plus clear emotional support, Jennifer aims to provide both.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Jennifer commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that matter, which can help with grief, life changes, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, mood challenges, sleep problems, and addiction-related patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jennifer will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or combine methods in a collaborative way. That means therapy may include skill practice, values-focused exercises, mindfulness practice, or problem-solving depending on what fits best.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video helps preserve face-to-face interaction, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.