Terry Jensen, LCSW
Calm, practical guidance for managing strong emotions
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
How Terry works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Terry
Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of practice. She combines behavioral methods with depth-oriented work to help people manage strong emotions, handle life transitions, and reduce stress. Terry uses clear, practical steps and listens for each person’s goals before planning sessions.
Her work often focuses on anger, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports people coping with caregiving strain, major health concerns, and changes like divorce or loss.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to connect current reactions to earlier experiences and find ways to change unhelpful patterns. Terry blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with psychodynamic ideas and brings in mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques when helpful. That mix lets her address thoughts and behaviors while also looking at deeper themes from the past.
She adapts strategies to what each person needs rather than using a single method for everyone. Clients can expect direct, respectful conversation and practical tools to try between sessions. Terry emphasizes small, doable steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
She invites people willing to do the work and be honest about what they want to change. Based in New Jersey, Terry has experience across healthcare, foster care, and working with adults facing disability and serious illness. Her style is steady and compassionate, focused on helping people regain control, build coping skills, and move toward more positive outcomes.
What Terry works with
Everything Terry lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Terry's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Terry lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven care you can access online
Many of Terry's methods focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors while paying attention to what caused those patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift thinking and behavior that fuel anger, anxiety, or low mood, and it offers concrete skills to practice between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck and choosing actions that match a person's values, which can help with stress, grief, and motivation.Terry also uses client-centered and mindfulness-informed techniques to keep sessions grounded in what matters to each person. Finding the best approach is a joint process. She will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps most in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people read facial cues and do deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, tools practice, or ongoing reflection between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
Questions people ask about Terry
What concerns does Terry frequently address?
Terry works with stress, anger, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, parenting strain, caregiver fatigue, trauma and abuse, and related problems like shame, infidelity, or adjustment to life changes.
What is Terry's therapy style like?
Her style combines behavioral techniques with psychodynamic exploration and mindfulness. Sessions include practical skills, discussion of past influences, and experimenting with new behaviors.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 30 years of clinical experience working in areas such as foster care and healthcare, and supporting people facing serious illness and disability.
What are Terry's credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - licensed in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Terry?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.