Terry Jensen, LCSW
Licensed in New Jersey · 30 years in practice
Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience helping adults navigate anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, New Jersey
- 44SC00847000 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1659466795 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
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About Terry
Terry Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience helping adults navigate anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She practices from New Jersey and brings a calm, direct style to conversations about stress, depression, parenting concerns, and trauma-related issues. Her sessions balance behavioral tools with insight from psychodynamic and Gestalt ideas.
She helps people look at how past experiences shape current reactions, then tries practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Work often includes skills for coping, managing anger, and improving self-esteem. Terry has experience in foster care and healthcare settings and has supported people facing caregiver strain, aging concerns, serious illness, and end-of-life questions. She also addresses complicated topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, sexual assault and post-traumatic stress.
In sessions she focuses on the individual’s goals and tailors interventions to fit real life. She encourages small, achievable steps and uses mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral techniques to reduce distress and build resilience. People will find a straightforward, respectful approach that emphasizes understanding and practical change.
Terry draws on 30 years of practice to offer steady guidance and clear strategies for handling difficult emotions and relationship challenges.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Terry lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to tolerate difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the person lead the pace of change; it supports self-esteem, grief work, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is often used for anxiety, anger, and depression.Terry will work with each person to identify which approach or combination fits best. That process is collaborative: she listens to goals, tries interventions, and adjusts based on what helps. Finding a good match between method and need is part of early sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and schedules. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting issues, trauma and compassion fatigue, among other matters listed in her specialties.
What is her general therapy style like?
The approach blends behavioral methods with psychodynamic and Gestalt ideas, using practical skills and attention to how the past affects present choices.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 30 years of professional experience, including work in foster care and healthcare settings.
Where is the therapist licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
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