Neurodiversity Affirmative Therapy

Dr. Jennifer Cork, DSW, LCSW provides services for children and adults in need of mental health therapy. Her goal for every client who attends the clinic is to work herself out of a job and help individuals and families learn tools to meet their own goals for emotional and mental wellbeing.

Dr. Jennifer is a scholar practitioner, meaning that she works to provide therapy services that are grounded in both experience and research. She strives to provide affirming and culturally humble care for clients. She is not looking to change anyone or use behavioral modification to make someone more “normal,” but to help individuals learn ways to navigate the world and meet their own goals. Dr. Jennifer is a late-diagnosed autistic adult and brings both professional and lived experience to her work.

Therapy

Dr. Jennifer primarily provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions in her work with clients. More specifically, many of the individuals she works with are both neurodivergent and have mental health diagnoses. Using CBT, she works to help individuals better understand their stress responses and find healthy ways to engage in fight, flight, or freeze responses in order to increase self-regulation. She works with children, teens, and adults.

Dr. Jennifer has experience with:

  • Adjustment Disorders

  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

  • Anxiety Disorders

    • General anxiety disorder

    • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

    • Separation anxiety

    • Social anxiety disorder

  • Autism

  • Brain Injuries

  • Intellectual Disability

  • LGBTQ+

  • Major Depressive Disorder

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Private pay clients (those without insurance or who do not plan to bill insurance) are entitled to a good faith estimate for the cost of services under the No Surprises Act. For more information, visit: Surprise-billing-consumers.pdf (oregon.gov)

Acceptance Mental Health accepts the following:

  • Private Pay

  • Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon

  • Providence Health Plan (PHP), Providence Health Assurance (PHA), Providence Plan Partners (PPP)

  • Pacific Source, Pacific Source Community Solutions