Jennifer Gaudreau, MSW, LICSW, Therapist in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Depending on your presenting needs, interests and therapy goals Jennifer will apply a combination of therapy tools to include:

CBT – Cultivating awareness of emotions, thoughts and behavior patterns and exploring healthier ways to regulate them.

Supportive – Learning tools such as validation, self-care, boundary setting, assertiveness, positive self-narrative and resilience building to manage acute and chronic stressors.

Dynamic/Systems/Relational – Identifying and shifting unhealthy patterns of conflict, emotion, attachment, self-view and relationships to broaden one’s self awareness and inner access to change.

DBT/Mindfulness – Building tools for healthier living including mindfulness, values clarification, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

Grief Perspectives – Affect narration and modulation to pace healing and to integrate one’s cognitive, emotional, somatic, social and spiritual parts. Building use of self-soothing tools and somatic anchor tools to calm fight or flight responses.

Jennifer obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1986 and a Master’s in Social Work from University of Maryland, Baltimore in 1988. She obtained her independent clinical license in Maryland in 1990 and in New Hampshire in 1997. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, in nature and reading. She looks forward to helping you cultivate tools for relief, insight for clarity and hope for a new and more satisfying direction.