Jennifer Rochel, LCSW, LICSW

Licensed in Louisiana · 20 years in practice

Jennifer Rochel is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions.

License and registration

LCSW, Louisiana: 11250 · expires August 2026
LICSW, District of Columbia: LC200001704 · expires November 2026
LCSW, Arkansas: 28094-C · expires December 2027
NPI: 1477740207 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 20
Languages: English

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About Jennifer

Jennifer Rochel is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She brings 20 years of experience to sessions and aims to create a caring, respectful space where people feel heard and understood. Jennifer focuses on practical ways to reduce symptoms and build coping skills.

She uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors.

Background and approach

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Her background includes work in child protection, schools, and independent practice. That experience shaped her ability to work with concerns such as parenting, family problems, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress.

She also supports people dealing with relationship struggles, anger, body image, and career stress. Jennifer works with people facing mood disorders, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She also helps those coping with divorce, loss, and major life changes.

Her approach considers how cultural identity and life context affect well-being. Sessions blend listening with practical skills training. Jennifer helps people set small, achievable goals and build routines that support long-term change.

She explains techniques in plain language and checks in often to make sure the work feels useful. People meet with her for a mix of short-term problem solving and longer-term work on deeper patterns. She aims to be steady, straightforward, and hopeful while helping people find ways to move forward.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Jennifer lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
Coping with life changes
LGBT
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Compassion fatigue
Adoption and foster care
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Guilt and shame
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Mood disorders
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Phobias
Post-traumatic stress
Self-harm
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Jennifer names

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Online support

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences drive decisions. It focuses on values and small steps toward the life someone wants, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy identifies unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them, often helping with anxiety, mood disorders, and coping after trauma.

Choosing the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match techniques to goals and preferences, trying strategies and adjusting based on what helps. That means sessions may blend ACT, CBT, and mindfulness tools depending on the issue and the client’s response.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, chat is good for short check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does this therapist address?

Jennifer works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, mood disorders, and many life transitions. She also focuses on parenting, family problems, body image, caregiver stress, and related issues.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses a person-centered, collaborative approach that blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques. Sessions mix listening with practical skill-building.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 20 years of experience working in settings that include child protection, schools, and independent practice. That background informs work with adoption, foster care, and family-related concerns.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

Jennifer is licensed as an LCSW in Arkansas and as an LICSW in the District of Columbia, and she lists Louisiana as her location for practice information.

Which languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available online?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled for therapy?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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