Therapist profile
Jennifer McFarlin, LMFT
LMFT - Relationships and family concerns
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- Attachment work
- Cognitive behavioral tools
- Mindfulness practice
About Jennifer
Jennifer McFarlin is a Florida-licensed LMFT with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns and on struggles that often show up at home, such as parenting strain, intimacy issues, anxiety, depression, and eating or body-image worries.
She frames problems as coming from patterns learned in early relationships. Sessions look at how attachment and family-of-origin beliefs shape current behavior. She also teaches coping skills to reduce distress while helping people shift the deeper beliefs that keep problems repeating.
Her early work included inpatient hospital care and several years as a primary therapist at an eating disorder treatment center. There she did individual counseling, group work, and family-focused interventions alongside treatment for co-occurring depression, anxiety, and OCD.
Since 2020 she has run a private practice that emphasizes attachment styles and relationship patterns. She completed certification in Integrated Attachment Theory in 2024 and integrates attachment ideas into her ongoing work with adults.
In sessions she uses approaches such as attachment-based methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. The aim is to both reduce current symptoms and to address the core relational wounds that influence behavior.
Her work is practical and direct. She helps people talk through communication problems, blended-family challenges, commitment or abandonment fears, parenting stress, grief, and the routine pressures that strain relationships.
How sessions work
How attachment and behavior work in online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at patterns formed early in relationships. It helps people recognize how those patterns affect current partnerships, parenting, and closeness. This approach is useful for worries about abandonment, commitment, and blended-family dynamics.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. CBT pairs well with mindfulness techniques that teach simple attention and breathing practices to calm the body during stress.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Jennifer will help identify whether attachment-focused work, CBT, or emotionally-focused methods fit best based on your goals and what feels most useful. Plans can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find online work helps fit therapy into a busy week, make shorter check-ins during stressful periods, or use sessions for focused communication practice without extra travel. Licensed professionals can use a mix of strategies to make sessions practical and relevant to everyday life.
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Experience
12+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
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What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, eating and body-image concerns, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, grief, and coping with life changes.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is direct and practical. She combines attachment ideas with CBT, EFT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to address both symptoms and underlying beliefs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 12 years of experience in counseling, including inpatient hospital work and several years at an eating disorder treatment center before opening a private practice in 2020.
What credential and location does she hold?
She is an LMFT licensed in Florida and practices there.
What languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific session formats.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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