Jennifer Groom-Reid

Jennifer Groom-Reid is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people through major life changes and painful moments. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and family issues. Jennifer emphasizes a warm, respectful stance so clients feel seen and heard as they talk about what matters most.

She supports people facing divorce, loss, midlife transitions, and end-of-life concerns. She also helps with codependency, abandonment, control patterns, and processing infidelity or family conflict. Sessions include practical steps for day-to-day coping as well as space to name deeper emotions.

Jennifer uses a culturally responsive approach that honors each person’s background and identity. She draws on several therapeutic styles to match what each person needs, and she works in straightforward language rather than clinical jargon. The goal is useful tools and clearer thinking, not complicated theory.

Her practice includes work on mood disorders, chronic pain and illness, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and money and career stress. She helps people rebuild a sense of direction and self-compassion after setbacks. Jennifer aims to walk alongside clients with honesty, patience, and respect.

With 12 years of experience and a Connecticut license as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker - she brings steady clinical experience to challenging situations. People who want a therapist who listens deeply and helps make small, practical changes may find her approach helpful.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when stress, grief, or life changes leave someone unsure what matters next.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. The therapist follows the client’s lead and offers empathic reflection, which helps people feel understood and start to make changes at their own pace.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It offers concrete exercises and strategies for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and shifting unhelpful thinking into more useful habits.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match the situation, and adjust based on what is most helpful to the client. Together they decide which tools to use and how to pace the work.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available session types before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people keep consistent work on grief or life transitions from wherever they are, while the therapist helps tailor exercises and coping steps to daily routines.