Jennifer McFarlin, LMFT

Jennifer McFarlin is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She focuses on trauma and abuse alongside issues like eating and body image, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem. Jennifer writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard and understood from the first session.

She has 12 years of experience in counseling after completing a Master’s in Counselor Education and a Specialist degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Florida in 2012. Early in her career she completed registered intern hours at a mental health hospital and later worked as a primary therapist at an eating disorder treatment center. There she counseled people with disordered eating and co-occurring depression, anxiety, and OCD while running group and family work alongside individual therapy.

Since 2020 she has operated a private practice focused on relationship issues and attachment styles. Her work looks at how early family of origin beliefs shape current behavior and relationship patterns. She helps clients identify those core wounds and practices to change the responses that cause pain.

In sessions she combines practical skill-building with deeper work on underlying beliefs. That can mean learning coping strategies, practicing new communication patterns, and addressing how past hurts inform present choices. She describes therapy as collaborative and direct, aiming to leave people better than she found them.

Jennifer is a Florida LMFT and offers services in English. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking.

How online work and approach meet relationship struggles

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape how people relate now. It helps identify patterns of closeness and distance and what drives them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches clear tools to change unhelpful thinking and coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and shift emotions that get in the way of secure connection and communication.

Finding the right approach is a process. Jennifer works with clients to pick approaches that match goals and preferences. She blends skill work with deeper attachment-focused exploration and adjusts as the work unfolds so it fits each person or couple.

Confirm current session formats before booking to know what online options are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people try approaches like CBT exercises or emotion-focused work from familiar surroundings while keeping therapy practical and goal-oriented.