Jennifer Connelly, MA, LMHC, LPC
Welcome!
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Summerville, South Carolina, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida. Originally from New York, I have been practicing psychotherapy since 2009. As a Qualified Supervisor, I also take pride in mentoring and supervising therapists working toward licensure. My expertise includes relational trauma, developmental immaturity, addiction and compulsive behaviors, mood disorders, relationship challenges, family dynamics, personal growth, and overall well-being.
As a therapist, I am passionate about walking alongside people on their journey toward healing. I believe that the therapeutic relationship is one of the most powerful catalysts for change. Every individual is unique, and together, we will explore what works best for you in achieving your goals.
Therapy is about movement—guiding those who feel stuck or disconnected toward a deeper, more meaningful relationship with themselves and others. In a safe and supportive environment, clients are encouraged to reconnect with their authentic selves. My approach integrates experiential and evidence-based techniques, including Post Induction Therapy, EMDR, Inner Child Work, IFS, Gestalt, Imagery Work, MI, and CBT. These methods help individuals reclaim lost parts of themselves and feel empowered in their healing process.
Committing to therapy offers profound benefits for overall well-being. By deepening self-awareness, cultivating self-compassion, and fostering emotional balance, we gain the resilience to navigate life’s ups and downs with greater clarity and purpose. You deserve to experience life fully, and I am here to support you in that journey.
individual therapy
Depression, Anxiety & Stress
Restore hope. Depression, anxiety & stress are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we can experience at some point in our lives. I specialize in therapy that brings awareness to the renewable purpose that exists within each individual. Using a variety of counseling modalities that best fit your needs, I will work with you to help you recover motivation, perspective, joy, and passion. Learn how to let go of fears and doubts while embracing self acceptance and wholeness.
Trauma
Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Fear, shame, pain, and sadness are a few emotions that are a result of experiencing trauma. Stress, difficulty concentrating, and an inability to maintain healthy relationships can suggest there is unresolved trauma from your past, creating issues in your life today. As the therapeutic relationship builds, we will walk through your journey together. In therapy, I will guide you in learning how to build what it is you need to be able to live the life you want. Not letting your past define you. I am experienced and trained in Post Induction Therapy, EMDR, and Inner Child Work.
Addiction
Recovery and a meaningful life after addiction is possible. Together, therapy will look closely at the underlying causes of your addiction and the symptoms that you face. Counseling will assist you in discovering why you turn to your addiction as a solution to cope with, and often times in an effort to mask, a bigger problem. My hope is to lead you in finding a path to maintaining recovery. We will aim to accentuate the light that healing creates, rather than the shadows that addiction can cast.
Therapeutic Techniques
Post Induction Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Post Induction Therapy
Post Induction Therapy looks at the way that early childhood traumas can lead to relationship issues, maladaptive behavior, and difficulties connecting with oneself in adulthood. Extended sessions for Inner Child and Feeling Reduction work are available for those who are ready to engage in deeper trauma work. In an experiential process, t
Post Induction Therapy looks at the way that early childhood traumas can lead to relationship issues, maladaptive behavior, and difficulties connecting with oneself in adulthood. Extended sessions for Inner Child and Feeling Reduction work are available for those who are ready to engage in deeper trauma work. In an experiential process, the client will explore their early history in their family of origin, and identify any traumatic, less than nurturing, experiences and associated feelings. The client will then be guided and supported through a specific series of experiential counseling processes’ to help identify and heal childhood relational trauma. In a safe and nurturing environment, clients release painful emotions, connect with their inherent worth, connect with personal power, and learn to reparent themselves.
EMDR
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Post Induction Therapy
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a form of therapy that helps people heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences. EMDR therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and used to resolve many issues and challenges. It is an empirically supported counselin
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a form of therapy that helps people heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences. EMDR therapy is an integrative psychotherapy approach that has been extensively researched and used to resolve many issues and challenges. It is an empirically supported counseling treatment for acute and chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.
Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create an overwhelming feeling of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapy approach that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system. These sub-personalities consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. Th
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapy approach that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system. These sub-personalities consist of wounded parts and painful emotions such anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. The sub-personalities are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self, a concept that describes the confident, compassionate, whole person that is at the core of every individual. IFS counseling focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self.