Anxiety? Worry? Panic? Fears? OCD?

Dr. Jen is passionate about helping people manage their anxiety. Whether it’s as a professional speaker, as a therapist, or through her books and therapy cards, she has dozens of effective tools to help you.

Everyone has anxiety. When there is physical threat our anxiety is healthy because our nervous systems help us to survive by preparing to fight, run, or freeze. In the 21st century, sometimes anxiety can help us to feel uncomfortable to get out of an unhealthy situation. However, most modern day stressors cause useless anxiety that interferes with our functioning, our ability to enjoy life, and makes us physically unhealthy and uncomfortable.

Dr. Jen is a clinical psychologist authorized to see clients for teletherapy in over 40 states. She’s an international speaker and author with 30+ years of specializing in the treatment of anxiety. Worried? She’s an expert at treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD; the worry disorder). However, Dr Jen is very experienced in treating and speaking about panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), insomnia, phobias, work stress, performance anxiety,  depression and social anxiety. Her approach is based in cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT), while integrating mindfulness, schema therapy, experiential therapies, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).  Above all, Dr. Jen’s approach is pragmatic. She retired in 2018, but re-opened her practice more recently so she is accepting new appointments!

An informative and entertaining speaker, Dr. Jen uses demonstrations, movie clips, humor and audience participation as tools to engage and teach. In her work training mental health care professionals with PESI, ratings from 1000’s of participants are reliably above 4.25 out of 5 with a mode of 5. Here’s what people are saying about Dr. Jen’s seminars: “Really Fantastic! Extremely knowledgeable and shared an abundance of tools,” and “This was the most informative and skill-building workshop I have attended in the past 10 years – thank you!”

After being the Assistant Director of Penn State's Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute, Dr. Jen returned home to bring her expertise to 1000's of St. Louisans suffering from anxiety.  She has developed many innovative techniques based on empirically proven strategies that are very effective in relieving anxiety. Her first book, Active Relaxation, was published in 2010 and received high praise from mental health professionals and anxious readers. Her second book, Resistant Anxiety, Worry, and Panic: 86 Practical Treatment Strategies for Clinicians was published in 2014 and received high praise from clinicians. Dr. Jen was invited to write the Melt Worry and Relax Card Deck, which was released in May 2016 and sold over 5,000 copies in just 2 years! Her most recent book is the best-selling The Anxiety, Worry, and Depression Workbook; it was inspired by the fact that worry and anxiety usually fuel depression and is one of the primary causes of it. Click the navigation bar above to learn more about her training, her publications, and read her blog, a regular source of great advice and insight.

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