Therapist in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Jennifer Gaudreau, Therapist

Jennifer Gaudreau is a licensed clinical social worker in New Hampshire, drawing from over 26 years as a clinician in community mental health and private practice settings. Jennifer currently works with adults ages 27- 64 seeking individual therapy for Anxiety, Depression, Acute and Chronic stress, Relationship struggles, Grief/Loss and Trauma.

Jennifer draws from perspectives such as Supportive, Dynamic/Relational/Systems, CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), Mindfulness, Trauma and Grief focused.

Depending on your presenting needs, interests and therapy goals Jennifer will curtail your treatment towards a combination of therapy tools drawn from these perspectives to include:

CBT – Cultivating emotional awareness and regulation, identifying thoughts particularly when emotions are heightened and distressing or impairing to tease out negative self-talk patterns and work to challenge and change one’s negative narrative, as well as to look at behaviors that help or worsen symptoms to promote a calm of fight or flight symptoms

Supportive – Listing acute and mounting stressors in one’s life and identifying tools to manage these including self-validation, self-care, increased stress management including setting boundaries, practicing assertiveness, building positive self-narrative and resilience tools.

Dynamic/Systems/Relational – Insight to identify and shift the weight of defenses contributing to unhealthy patterns of conflict, emotion, attachment, self-view and relationships which can then free and broaden one’s inner access to change.

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

Trauma and Grief Perspectives – Trauma narration and modulation to pace healing and to integrate one’s cognitive, emotional, somatic, social and spiritual parts. Build 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 clarify and hope for a new and more satisfying direction.