Jennifer Spinner, LICSW, LCSW

Jennifer Spinner is a licensed clinical social worker who brings decades of experience to her therapeutic practice, offering compassionate, nonjudgmental support designed to improve relationships and daily functioning. With 25 years of clinical experience and more than a decade in private practice, she draws on a wide range of methods to meet each person where they are and create a treatment plan tailored to individual goals and challenges. Jennifer holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker - reflecting advanced training in clinical social work.

She combines practical skills with deep empathy informed by personal life experience, including surviving cancer, living through hurricanes, and parenting a child with special needs. Those experiences contribute to her ability to understand complex life stressors such as divorce, career transitions, health crises, relationship conflicts, addiction, parenting difficulties, and bereavement. Trained to "start where the client is," she prioritizes validation and listening so clients feel understood and empowered to make change.

Jennifer works with people from diverse backgrounds and uses a collaborative approach to build strengths, address attachment and communication patterns, and develop coping strategies. Based in Florida, she is fluent in English and Spanish and supports clients seeking practical, compassionate guidance for a wide range of life challenges.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care and Connection

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take action aligned with those values. It emphasizes acceptance of difficult thoughts and emotions while building committed behavior change, which can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and chronic stress.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust. By identifying attachment needs and repairing relational patterns, this approach can support work on intimacy, relationship difficulties, grief, and trauma-related concerns.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a supportive, empathetic relationship in which the therapist offers understanding and validation while clients lead the direction of change. This approach is often helpful for building self-esteem, improving communication, and navigating complex life decisions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jennifer works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy provides practical flexibility - clients can meet by video call, speak by phone, or use live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, maintain continuity during busy periods, and access licensed professionals from wherever clients are located within the allowed regions.