Jennifer Ladd, LPC

Jennifer Ladd is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee with 13 years of experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. She has worked with clients coping with depression, anxiety, relationship and parenting difficulties, career transitions, motivational struggles, trauma including childhood trauma, codependency, ADHD, and somatic symptoms. Jennifer has received specialized training in treating PTSD using Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and has provided both individual and group counseling services.

Her therapeutic manner is warm, conversational, and interactive, combining careful clinical listening with an intuitive sense for the deeper feelings that often lie beneath presenting symptoms. She treats clients with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping them recognize and build on their unique strengths, personality traits, and preferences. Diagnosis is viewed as one useful tool among many, not the whole story.

Jennifer integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques, interpersonal methods, rational-emotive counseling, and experiential therapies to create tailored treatment plans. Sessions are shaped to meet each person’s specific needs, and the focus is on practical, meaningful steps toward greater well-being. She welcomes the opportunity to support people as they navigate life transitions and pursue a more fulfilling, balanced life.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify their values and take meaningful action even in the presence of difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for people working to build a life aligned with what matters to them. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns formed in early relationships to improve current connections and address issues like abandonment, trust, and intimacy concerns. It can be helpful for people navigating relationship struggles or attachment-related distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, and many everyday life challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jennifer collaborates with each client to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts interventions as progress is made and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, over the phone, via live chat, or through text-based messaging. This range of options allows clients to access care around work, family responsibilities, and location, making it easier to maintain consistency and integrate therapeutic work into daily life.