About Jeni
Jeni Wahlig is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on relationships and life transitions. She creates a calm space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, sexuality, and family concerns without feeling judged.
Background and approach
Jeni emphasizes clear, practical steps alongside listening and understanding. With 13 years of experience in Washington, she helps clients navigate issues tied to intimacy, parenting, and major life changes.
That includes blended family dynamics, separation and divorce, and the particular stresses that come with relationship conflict. She also supports people facing isolation, codependency, and questions about commitment.
Jeni uses approaches that help people understand how bonds with others shape feelings and behavior. She draws on methods that focus on emotions, interaction patterns, and everyday thoughts to make change manageable.
Sessions are centered on each person's needs and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all script. Her work includes support for LGBT and gender-related concerns, including gender dysphoria and sexuality questions.
She also addresses non-monogamous relationship styles, infidelity, and issues around self-worth and life purpose. Parents can bring struggles tied to raising children and blended household challenges.
Conversations with Jeni tend to be straightforward and respectful. She helps people name what is hard, try a few new ways of relating, and practice skills between sessions.
The goal is clearer communication, less daily stress, and a stronger sense of direction.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jeni integrates Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior, which helps people understand recurring conflicts and closeness issues. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to focus on how emotions guide interactions and to help people shift patterns that cause pain. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and daily habits that feed anxiety and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggest approaches to test. Clients and the therapist make adjustments over time so the way they work together fits what the client wants to accomplish.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching interaction skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Chat and messaging let people share between sessions, do brief check-ins, or reflect in writing. These options help people fit care into work, childcare, and other schedules while keeping therapy regular and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English