Terry Jensen

Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of clinical experience. She earned a Master of Social Work from Rutgers University and has worked in foster care, healthcare, and with people who have disabilities. Terry offers calm, practical support for issues like stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and anger.

Her work focuses on how past experiences shape present life. She blends behavioral methods with psychodynamic ideas to help people notice patterns and try different choices. Sessions often mix practical steps with attention to current feelings and life circumstances.

Terry uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and Gestalt ideas to stay grounded in the present while addressing earlier events. Mindfulness and acceptance-based practices are used when helpful to manage difficult emotions like anxiety or anger. She aims to tailor interventions to each person’s goals.

Clients can expect a respectful, direct style that emphasizes clear goals and doable changes. Terry encourages people to take small steps that add up over time. She also supports those facing caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, trauma, and issues tied to identity and discrimination.

Her experience includes work across adult age ranges and with single people and couples. Terry aims to create a setting where people feel comfortable sharing hard things and working toward better daily functioning.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

Terry uses Acceptance and Commitment concepts and cognitive behavioral ideas that can be adapted to conversation and home practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values, which helps with stress, anger, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and trying concrete experiments to change them, often with exercises between sessions.

Client-centered and mindfulness elements are also part of her approach, offering a calm, listening presence and training in simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity. These methods help people slow down and respond to strong emotions more intentionally. Deciding which approach to use is a team process; the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and situation.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and practice skills in daily life between meetings. Many people find that regular sessions combined with short exercises between meetings supports steady progress.