About Jennifer
I’m Jennifer Mitchell, a licensed marriage and family therapist offering depth-oriented telehealth therapy for adults in California and Connecticut.
I specialize in working with people who have spent years quietly adapting to everyone around them and are ready to figure out what's actually theirs.
What drew me to this work isn't separate from my own life. I've lived many of these patterns myself — and that informs everything about how I work.
Where This Work Comes From
For a long time, I was often in my head trying hard to get everything right. I adjusted myself to the people around me — reading the room, anticipating reactions, not pushing for my needs to be met, giving in to keep the peace, reshaping my schedule and life around what others wanted.
Somewhere along the way, I lost touch with myself. My life didn’t feel like my own.
Over time, I began to understand these patterns not as flaws, but as ways I had learned to stay connected.
What once helped me maintain relationships eventually became internalized and automatic.
That recognition shaped the work I do now. Through my own work, I came to understand more deeply how these patterns take root and why they can be so difficult to recognize from the inside.
I don’t sit with you as someone diagnosing you. I sit with you as someone who understands how these patterns develop and how they can begin to shift.
This includes understanding what it's like when relationships have slowly eroded your trust in your own perception and how long it can take to even recognize that's what happened.
Professional Background
My training is rooted in depth-oriented psychotherapy, including Gestalt, existential, and transpersonal approaches.
I earned my Master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where the focus was depth work, relational awareness, and the integration of mind, body, and meaning.
Over the years, I’ve worked in community mental health, school-based settings, psychiatric facilities, and private practice, supporting adolescents and adults navigating anxiety, attachment wounds, relational conflict, life transitions, and long-standing patterns of self-doubt.
Depth psychology strongly informs how I think about change. I pay attention to patterns. The roles learned early in life and the ways you adapted to stay connected often continue long after they stop serving you. Naming those patterns and exploring how they are still present can bring a deeper understanding of what’s been happening.
I’m also a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath® practitioner and incorporate attachment theory and nervous system awareness into the work.
My understanding of people and what's possible for them draws from more than clinical training. I've spent years studying consciousness, depth psychology, mysticism, and wisdom traditions from many cultures — not as a belief system to impose, but as a broader way of seeing what's happening in a person's life and what might be trying to emerge.
Working Together
Sessions tend to feel conversational and engaged. I work things out with you. I ask questions, reflect patterns, and sometimes offer a different lens when something feels stuck.
There’s room here for depth, but also for humor. We can talk seriously about difficult things and still laugh. I meet you where you are. I won’t force an interpretation or insist on a particular way of seeing something. My role isn’t to convince you of something. It’s to help you understand yourself more clearly.
If some of this feels familiar, therapy can be a place to slow down and understand those patterns more clearly.
You don’t have to figure everything out on your own.
If this feels like the kind of work you’re looking for, feel free to reach out below.
Contact me
If this feels like the kind of work you're looking for, reach out to me at:
jmitchellmft@gmail.com
707-387-0175
Please note: To protect your privacy, please keep your initial message brief — just your name and a good time to reach you. Save the details for when we connect.
Once we connect, I'll provide access to a secure client portal for all confidential communication.