Jennifer Gaumer, LCSW

Jennifer Gaumer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She has worked in hospital child guidance clinics, residential treatment centers, and community parenting programs for teens in foster care. Her practice focuses on common struggles such as anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strain, ADHD, and trauma and abuse.

Jennifer draws on a mix of practical talk-therapy and structured methods to help people manage symptoms and make everyday changes. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and problem-solving approaches to identify patterns and try different ways of responding. Sessions are interactive and focused on building skills that can be used between meetings.

Her background includes work as a forensic interviewer, which informs how she approaches conversations about physical trauma and emotional abuse. That experience shapes how she listens and structures safety and pacing in sessions when trauma is part of the story. She also has experience supporting people with grief, addictions, eating concerns, mood disorders, panic, and post-traumatic stress.

Jennifer aims for practical progress rather than abstract talk. She helps clients develop tools for communication, manage anger, and handle life transitions. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue and work-related stress, and addresses attachment and family of origin issues in individual sessions.

Outside of clinical work she gardens, renovates her home, reads, and spends time at the beach with her husband and two daughters. She asks prospective clients to complete a brief questionnaire and schedule a first session to begin the process.

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