Jennifer Altheimer, ACA, PACFA

Jennifer Altheimer is an ACA and PACFA counsellor with 18 years' experience supporting people through relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, anxiety and midlife transitions. She aims to create a warm, approachable space where clients can talk through what feels stuck and discover their own strengths. Jennifer frames work around practical steps that fit everyday life.

Her style is client-centred and strength-based. Sessions focus on listening, helping people name patterns, and finding clear next steps. She uses mindfulness tools to calm overwhelm and solution-focused work to identify manageable changes. Internal Family Systems ideas are used when it helps people understand different parts of themselves.

Jennifer has worked across many relationship and family issues, including blended family concerns, communication problems, divorce and separation, and parent-teen conflict. She also supports people facing abandonment and attachment issues, body image concerns, eating-related difficulties, and caregiver stress. She aims to help with both practical coping and deeper emotional repair.

People consult her for career stress, compassion fatigue, intimacy-related issues, and feelings of emptiness or shame. In conversations she draws attention to available strengths and practical strategies clients can try between sessions. Her approach is collaborative rather than prescriptive.

Jennifer asks people to shape sessions around their needs. She offers coaching-style conversations as well as therapeutic work, depending on the goal. To start, she helps clients set clear, realistic goals and checks in on progress as therapy continues.

How therapeutic approaches inform online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It involves listening closely, reflecting what is said and helping people uncover their own answers to problems like relationship strain or self-esteem struggles.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve emotional steadiness. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with change by helping people notice strong feelings without reacting immediately.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jennifer works collaboratively to identify what suits a person's goals and preferences. She will talk through options and adjust methods as sessions progress so the work feels useful and relevant.

For practical arrangements, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to practise mindfulness or communication exercises in everyday settings and then reflect on them together in the next session.