Jenna Van Houten

Jenna Van Houten is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio with six years of professional experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief, and issues around identity and sexuality. Her style is conversational and straightforward, so sessions tend to feel like a guided, honest conversation rather than a lecture.

Jenna mixes practical skills with reflective work. She uses Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take steps toward it. That work often includes learning new coping skills, building awareness of unhelpful patterns, and practicing small behavior changes between sessions.

Her background includes many years supporting young people and adults affected by substance use, legal involvement, family separation, and multiple traumas. Jenna emphasizes listening first and creating space to process the experiences that shaped someone’s life. She often focuses on attachment, adoption and foster care concerns, family of origin issues, and communication problems.

Clients can expect a blend of skill teaching, values-based work, and emotional processing. Jenna aims to help people reconnect with what feels authentic, reduce shame and guilt, and build skills for managing stress, anger, and daily challenges. She also supports exploration of life purpose, career questions, and parenting concerns.

Her approach highlights autonomy, education, and radical acceptance. If the match isn’t right, she offers to help find another option so the healing process can still move forward.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people name and process upsetting experiences in a paced way so memories feel less overwhelming and daily life becomes easier to manage. It is often used when past events keep affecting thoughts, feelings, or relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. ACT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own experience and choices, offering an empathetic, nonjudgmental space to explore identity, relationships, and self-worth.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Jenna works with people to learn what fits their goals, preferences, and life demands. She adapts methods over time, mixing skills practice with emotional processing so the work stays relevant to each person’s needs.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions are scheduled. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue therapy during life changes and manage work or parenting constraints more easily. Licensed professionals can adjust pacing, homework, and between-session supports to match an online rhythm that works for the client.