Jennifer Gleizer

Jennifer Gleizer is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, and family conflict. She frames therapy as a practical conversation tailored to each person. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, with an emphasis on clear goals and steady progress.

Jennifer uses short-term strategies and deeper narrative work depending on what a person needs. She often focuses on skills for coping with life changes and patterns that keep problems repeating. Sessions include talking through current problems, identifying small changes, and trying out different ways of responding.

With 15 years of experience as an LMFT, she brings experience from varied settings to individual cases. She adjusts the pace and focus to match what each person needs in the moment. That can mean a solution-focused plan for immediate relief or slower work on family-of-origin wounds.

Jennifer pays attention to issues that commonly come up around relationships, including trust, commitment, communication, and the fallout from separation. She also helps people facing caregiver stress, codependency, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose and self-worth.

People who meet with her typically get clear steps between sessions. She uses a mix of cognitive and narrative techniques to shift thinking and to rewrite unhelpful stories about the self. The work aims to create more manageable days and better choices over time.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Jennifer commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite those stories so they no longer hold someone back.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and practical needs and then recommend ways of working that fit. This collaborative process means the plan can shift as progress is made or new concerns emerge.

If you plan to pursue online therapy, confirm the available session formats before booking so you know how sessions will be delivered. Online options can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. These practical benefits can help maintain consistency and make it easier to try new skills between meetings.