Jennifer Torres, LMHC, LCMHC

Integrating Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Internal Family Systems offers a way to explore the different parts of a person’s inner experience, helping clients understand conflicting inner voices and cultivate self-led healing for issues like trauma, anxiety, and internal conflict. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relational patterns influence emotions and behavior, supporting work on intimacy, communication problems, caregiver stress, and family dynamics. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and perspective, creating a collaborative space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and builds on strengths to address concerns such as depression, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be collaborative. Jennifer uses these methods as tools rather than prescriptions, and she helps clients determine which combination best matches their needs, goals, and preferences as therapy progresses.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for scheduling and for choosing how to communicate. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work and family commitments, enable regular check-ins between sessions when useful, and support people who need access from different locations while working with licensed professionals.