Jen Eichberg
LCSW
Building Resilience
Navigating Transitions
If you have arrived here, welcome to a step on your journey towards your best self and family. Below you will find info on my practice, background and some logistics.
Approach
The pressures that constitute today’s culture don’t allow for an ease of growing up. It can be hard to find a solid path through global crises, over scheduling, social media, school stress and the disconnection of society. Sometimes unhealthy ways of coping arise. Anxiety screams that we should be prioritizing “DO” and fear over learning about ourselves. This can be especially true as kids transition to high school and college. Jen helps her clients get grounded, mindful, develop a strong sense of self and learn life skills to ride out the bumpy times. She has also come to be a trusted resource to parents in the journey of letting go and lends a supportive ear while also offering specific strategies.
Her warmth and authenticity, along with evidence-based approaches and 20+ years experience are here to guide you and your family to being your best selves. She has spent her career helping clients navigate the growing up process.
Supporting you as you process life is at the core of the practice.
Please visit these resource pages for support, to grow, and to spark conversation at home.
Gender and the Election Results from a 16 year old’s perspective
Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy - The Hidden Brain
The Importance of Being An Ally as Teens Navigate Gender and Sexuality
Breathe and How it Can Change Your Life
Regarding the current climate in the Middle East and The United States, there is an amazing resource out of the UK
Solutions not Sides.
Background
Jen (She/Her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) specializing in kids, teens and families. Grounded in her Ohio roots, she began her career in politics and non-profit organizations where she focused on listening to people’s stories and understanding their experiences. Later, those passions evolved into the role of a therapist and trusted advisor in supporting families.
Jen spent 11 years at Children’s Colorado (formerly The Children’s Hospital) where she worked in all levels of care and many settings, including the ER, the general psychiatric inpatient unit and the anxiety clinic, yet her majority of time was on the Eating Disorders Unit. She coordinated patient care and individual and family therapy, ran groups, conducted evaluations and supervised other clinicians. She has been in private practice since 2013 and while currently is generalist in nature, she maintains the ED specialty and partners with a dietician in her building.
She is a mom of two and lives in central Denver. When not working, she can be found in search of a great cup of coffee (shade-grown, bird-friendly only please), snowshoeing with her dog Fraser and rescuing bugs from the perils of modern society. Jen strives to be her best self and is affirming in serving the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Jen is open to all perspectives, but having served as Director of a campus Hillel for three years she has a particular background in supporting students experiencing antisemitism.
20+ years specialist focusing on adolescents and family work
2003, MSW University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work
Colorado Licensed SW #1231 since 3/09.
OMNI Research Award Recipient - The Stages of Change
Past Adjunct Professor, University of Denver
“Open to All” Business member (opentoall.com)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) member
International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals member
Featured speaker at Stanley British Primary School and Alexander Dawson School, and various faith and community groups.
Relationships with and knowledge of Colorado’s top High Schools - including East, George Washington, Kent, CA, Regis Jesuit and more.
Regular consultant with Denver’s top pediatricians
Specialties:
Transitioning into High School and College
Identity Development
Life Skill Acquisition
Depression
Anxiety
Self Esteem
Self - harm
Family Therapy
Eating Disorders
Orthorexia
ARFID
Treatment modalities:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
FBT - Family Based Treatment (FBT)
Services
PLEASE CONTACT JEN FOR RATES
Therapy
Individual
Family Work
Eating Disorder Evaluations
Professional Services
Presentations to schools and community groups
Supervision for emerging practitioners
Consultation with Doctors and Practitioners on Eating Disorders and ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
Transitions Programming
For High School and College
Graduating and Changing school - where to go? What feels like “Me”? What will this mean? These questions can have an impact on stability. Jen’s goal-focused, agenda driven series results in a greater ability to navigate choices and changes, family agreements being solidified and teens set up for success.
3 Session School Decision Program (best timed in the fall coinciding with application season)
Self and Personal Values
Lessons Learned
Application tips, interview strategies
6 Sessions Core Program
Self and Personal Values
Social life and Navigating Campus
Academic and Executive Function Tips
Health and Personal Habits
Goal setting
Family Agreement session
For Disordered Eating:
If your child is suffering, it is crucial to put together a team that understands the complexities you and they are facing. While maintaining a generalist practice, Jen’s Eating Disorder background spans 20 years through her work at Children’s Colorado and in private practice. She works independently with many clinicians and doctors in the area to provide best practice and partners in-office with dietician Emily Crowder, RDN to provide behavioral plans, meal coaching, parent empowerment and family therapy for clients with eating concerns and activity disorders.
Please note that if you are requiring an ED Evaluation, recent medical records and partnering with a dietician - (Emily or another provider) - will be a required component.
Please contact Jen for a free 20-minute consultation to learn more about rates or to ask questions. Insurance is not accepted at this time, but
receipts and super bills can be provided to submit to your insurance carrier.
Contact
Location
3570 E. 12th Avenue, Suite 211
Denver, CO 80206
jeneichberg@gmail.com
The office is located within the Monroe Suites Office Building. Off-street parking is easily accessible and when you enter the building, go up one flight and have a seat in the waiting area.