Jennifer Fitkin, LCSW, CSW

Jennifer Fitkin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 20 years of clinical experience. She blends extensive practice experience with advanced training to support individuals, families, and groups working through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addiction issues, trauma, and a range of life transitions. Her work often focuses on attachment and family dynamics, parenting challenges, and adoption and foster care concerns, while also addressing issues such as ADHD, impulse control, grief, and problems with guilt and shame.

Over the course of her career Jennifer has held roles that include therapist, clinical supervisor, deputy senior clinician, senior clinician, and Clinical Director of a residential treatment facility that specialized in attachment issues. She has provided services in a variety of settings including residential treatment, community-based foster care programs, juvenile justice services, and prison rehabilitation programs, which contributes to a broad, practical perspective on treatment and recovery.

Jennifer earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work from the University of Northern Iowa and has pursued additional training in Functional Family Therapy, Schema Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and the Good Lives Model. Her approach is strengths-based and integrates methods from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to create individualized treatment plans. Outside of her clinical work she values outdoor activities like hiking, paddleboarding, backpacking, and camping, maintains a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer credential, and often highlights the role of movement, sleep, and nutrition in overall well-being. Her dog Boomer has occasionally joined sessions and still makes the occasional guest appearance in telehealth meetings.