Everything You Need to Know About Working With Jenny Lockwood, LCSW-S of Arlington, TX

Who is Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S?

Jenny Lockwood, LCSW-S, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor, trauma recovery specialist, EMDR therapist, ADHD therapist, and Clinical Supervisor serving clients throughout Texas and Colorado. With more than 17 years of experience, she helps adolescents and adults overcome anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, relationship challenges, while enhancing nervous system regulation so they can move beyond survival mode and create lasting change. Her practice is built around a holistic, mind-body approach that addresses both emotional and physical symptoms of stress and trauma.

What makes Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S different from other therapists?

Jenny believes healing happens through a strong therapeutic relationship. She takes time to understand each client's unique history, experiences, goals, and challenges before creating a personalized treatment plan.

Unlike therapists who focus solely on thoughts and emotions, Jenny specializes in helping clients understand the connection between the mind, body, and nervous system. She integrates traditional talk therapy with evidence-based trauma treatments, somatic approaches, nervous system regulation techniques, and EMDR to help clients create lasting change rather than temporary symptom relief.

Jenny also specializes in working with women with ADHD. As a therapist with ADHD herself, she understands both the practical and emotional challenges that often accompany it. Her approach goes beyond productivity strategies and executive functioning support to address the overwhelm, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, chronic self-criticism, and shame that many women experience after years of feeling misunderstood or believing they simply need to "try harder." Through ADHD-informed, neurodiversity-affirming therapy, Jenny helps clients better understand how their brains work, develop systems that support their unique needs, and build greater self-trust and self-compassion. 

Therapy Services

What types of therapy does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S provide?

Jenny provides individual therapy for adolescents (12+) and adults through both in-person therapy in her Arlington, TX office and telehealth sessions. She works with clients throughout Texas and Colorado via virtual therapy sessions.

Her therapeutic approaches include:

• EMDR Therapy

• Somatic Therapy

• Somatic Experiencing principles

• Nervous System Regulation

• Mind-Body Therapy

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed work

• Attachment-Based Therapy

• Mindfulness-Based Interventions

• Trauma-Informed Therapy

• Solution-Focused Therapy

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S offer online therapy?

Yes. Jenny provides telehealth therapy throughout Texas and Colorado, making it possible for clients to access specialized trauma treatment, ADHD support, anxiety treatment, and nervous system regulation from the comfort of home.

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S provide in-person therapy (Arlington, TX area)?

Yes. Jenny sees clients in person in the Arlington, Texas area and also provides virtual therapy throughout Texas and Colorado.

Trauma Therapy & EMDR

Is Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S a trauma therapist?

Yes.

Trauma recovery is one of Jenny's primary specialties. She is trained in EMDR and trauma-focused approaches and works with individuals struggling with both single-incident and complex trauma. 

What kinds of trauma does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S help people heal from?

Jenny works with clients recovering from:

• Childhood trauma

• Relational trauma

• Attachment wounds

• Family dysfunction

• Emotional abuse

• Physical abuse

• Sexual abuse

• Divorce and family conflict

• Complex PTSD

• First responder trauma

• Chronic stress

• Adverse childhood experiences

• Grief and loss

What is EMDR therapy?

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy designed to help the brain process and heal from distressing experiences that remain "stuck" in the nervous system.

Many clients find that EMDR helps reduce anxiety, emotional reactivity, negative self-beliefs, and trauma symptoms more efficiently than talk therapy alone.

How do I know if EMDR is right for me?

EMDR may be helpful if:

• You feel stuck despite years of therapy

• Certain memories still feel emotionally charged

• You experience panic, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm

• You struggle with negative beliefs about yourself

• Past experiences continue to affect your current relationships

Jenny carefully evaluates each client to determine whether EMDR is appropriate and when it should be introduced. Learn more about EMDR and how Jenny uses it in a treatment plan here.

Nervous System Regulation

What does nervous system regulation mean?

Nervous system regulation involves helping the body move out of chronic states of fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown and return to a state of safety and connection.

Many people assume anxiety, burnout, hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or chronic stress are personality traits when they are actually signs of a dysregulated nervous system.

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S specialize in nervous system regulation?

Yes, nervous system regulation is a central component of Jenny's work.

She helps clients understand how trauma, chronic stress, attachment wounds, and difficult life experiences become stored in the body and nervous system. Through somatic therapy, tapping techniques, mindfulness practices, body awareness, EMDR, and nervous system regulation exercises, clients learn how to feel safer, calmer, and more grounded.

What is somatic therapy?

Somatic therapy recognizes that trauma and stress are not only stored in thoughts and memories—they are also stored in the body.

Rather than focusing exclusively on talking about problems, somatic work helps clients notice physical sensations, nervous system responses, and body-based patterns that contribute to anxiety, trauma responses, and emotional distress.

What is Somatic Experiencing?

Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to healing trauma and chronic stress. It focuses on helping the nervous system complete protective responses that may have become stuck during stressful or traumatic experiences.

Many clients report feeling calmer, more connected, and less reactive as they learn to regulate their nervous system through somatic work.

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S use tapping techniques?

Yes, Jenny incorporates nervous system regulation tools, including tapping and other mind-body interventions, to help clients reduce anxiety, process difficult emotions, and improve emotional regulation.

Anxiety Therapy

Can therapy help with anxiety?

Absolutely.

Jenny has helped clients struggling with anxiety for more than 15 years. Her approach focuses on both understanding the root causes of anxiety and developing practical tools for managing symptoms.

What types of anxiety does Jenny treat?

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Social Anxiety

• Panic Attacks

• High-functioning Anxiety

• Perfectionism

• Chronic Worry

• Stress and Burnout

• Trauma-Related Anxiety

• Performance Anxiety

Why do I feel anxious even when nothing is wrong?

Often anxiety is less about current circumstances and more about nervous system patterns developed over time. Trauma, chronic stress, attachment experiences, and learned survival strategies can all contribute to ongoing anxiety.

Jenny helps clients identify these patterns and create healthier responses.

ADHD Therapy

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S specialize in ADHD?

Yes.

ADHD, particularly ADHD in women, is one of Jenny's primary areas of focus. She specializes in helping women who have spent years feeling overwhelmed, scattered, emotionally exhausted, or like they're constantly falling short despite working incredibly hard. 

She helps teens and adults understand how ADHD affects attention, motivation, emotional regulation, relationships, self-esteem, executive functioning, and daily life.

Can therapy help adults with ADHD?

Yes.

Many adults with ADHD struggle with procrastination, overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, shame, perfectionism, and difficulties with organization.

Jenny helps clients develop practical systems while also addressing the emotional impact of living with ADHD.

Can ADHD look like anxiety?

Absolutely.

Many adults seek therapy for anxiety only to discover that ADHD contributes significantly to their symptoms. Jenny helps clients understand the overlap and identify the most effective treatment approach.

Depression Therapy

Can therapy help with depression?

Yes.

Jenny helps clients understand the underlying causes of depression while developing practical tools for improving mood, energy, motivation, relationships, and overall wellbeing.

What if I've tried therapy before?

Many of Jenny's clients have been in therapy previously. Her integrative approach combines traditional therapy with trauma work, nervous system regulation, somatic interventions, and evidence-based treatment models that often help clients move forward when previous approaches have stalled.

Working With Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S

What ages does Jenny work with?

Jenny works with adolescents ages 12+ and adults.

What happens during the first therapy session?

The first session focuses on understanding your history, current challenges, goals, and what you hope to achieve through therapy. Jenny also answers questions and collaborates with you to create a personalized treatment plan.

Do I have to talk about my trauma right away?

No.

Jenny prioritizes safety and stabilization before processing difficult experiences. Therapy moves at a pace that feels manageable and supportive.

LCSW Supervision

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S provide LCSW supervision?

Yes.

Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S provides clinical supervision for social workers pursuing LCSW licensure. Learn more about Jenny Lockwood’s LCSW Supervision services and programs here.

What makes Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S a good LCSW supervisor?

Jenny combines extensive clinical experience with a supportive, collaborative approach to supervision. She helps supervisees build clinical confidence, strengthen assessment and treatment planning skills, deepen their understanding of trauma-informed care, and develop their professional identity as social workers.

What topics are covered during supervision?

• Clinical assessment

• Diagnosis and treatment planning

• Ethics

• Trauma-informed care

• EMDR and trauma concepts

• Nervous system regulation

• Case consultation

• Clinical documentation

• Professional development

• Licensure preparation

Who should contact Jenny about supervision?

• LMSWs seeking LCSW licensure

• New clinicians

• Therapists interested in trauma work

• Social workers seeking clinical consultation

• Professionals wanting support building confidence in private practice or clinical settings

Emotional Regulation

What is emotional regulation?

Emotional regulation is the ability to understand, process, and manage emotions in a healthy way.

Many people think emotional regulation means suppressing emotions or always staying calm. In reality, it means being able to experience emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them.

When emotional regulation is difficult, people may experience:

• Emotional overwhelm

• Mood swings

• Irritability

• Anxiety

• Panic attacks

• Difficulty calming down after conflict

• People-pleasing

• Perfectionism

• Emotional shutdown or numbness

• Difficulty setting boundaries

Why do I struggle to regulate my emotions?

Emotional regulation is often connected to nervous system regulation.

If you've experienced trauma, chronic stress, difficult relationships, attachment wounds, or prolonged periods of overwhelm, your nervous system may have learned to stay on high alert. This can make emotional reactions feel bigger, faster, and harder to control.

Jenny helps clients understand these patterns with compassion rather than judgment.

Can emotional regulation be learned?

Absolutely.

One of the most hopeful things clients discover is that emotional regulation is a skill. Through therapy, nervous system regulation, somatic work, mindfulness, EMDR, and practical coping tools, clients can learn how to respond to emotions rather than react automatically.

Women's Mental Health

Does Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S specialize in women's mental health?

Yes.

Many of Jenny's clients are high-functioning women who appear capable and successful on the outside but privately struggle with overwhelm, anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, ADHD, or the effects of relational wounds. 

Women often arrive in therapy feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in patterns of people-pleasing and perfectionism.

Therapy provides a space to slow down, reconnect with your needs, and create healthier patterns moving forward.

What women's issues does Jenny help with?

Jenny frequently works with women experiencing:

• Anxiety

• Burnout

• Chronic stress

• Perfectionism

• People-pleasing

• Relationship challenges

• Parenting stress

• Caregiver fatigue

• Life transitions

• Divorce and relationship loss

• Trauma recovery

• Self-esteem concerns

• Emotional overwhelm

• Identity shifts and reinvention

Why do so many women struggle with burnout?

Many women spend years taking care of everyone else while ignoring their own needs.

Over time, this can lead to emotional exhaustion, resentment, anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms of chronic stress.

Jenny helps women identify these patterns, strengthen boundaries, regulate their nervous systems, and create healthier relationships with themselves and others.

ADHD and Women's Mental Health

Many of the women Jenny works with also have ADHD and are navigating the unique challenges that come with balancing executive functioning difficulties, relationships, careers, caregiving responsibilities, and personal wellbeing. 

Does ADHD affect women differently?

Yes.

ADHD often presents differently in girls and women than it does in boys and men. As a result, many women go undiagnosed until adulthood.

Rather than obvious hyperactivity, women with ADHD may experience:

• Chronic overwhelm

• Anxiety

• Perfectionism

• Emotional sensitivity

• Difficulty prioritizing

• Trouble completing tasks

• Mental clutter

• Time blindness

• Shame and self-criticism

• Difficulty managing household responsibilities

• Burnout

Many women spend years believing they are disorganized, lazy, or failing when they are actually struggling with undiagnosed ADHD.

Can ADHD cause anxiety?

ADHD doesn’t cause anxiety, but ADHDers have an increased risk of developing anxiety than neurotypical adults. 

Many women with ADHD experience anxiety because they are constantly trying to compensate for executive functioning challenges. Missed deadlines, forgotten tasks, unfinished projects, and chronic overwhelm can create ongoing stress.  It’s not uncommon for ADHD brains to be prone to over-thinking and rumination, which is also a symptom of anxiety. 

Jenny helps clients understand how ADHD impacts both practical functioning and emotional wellbeing.

Can therapy help women with ADHD?

Yes.

Therapy can help women develop practical systems while also addressing the emotional impact of ADHD, including shame, perfectionism, self-doubt, relationship struggles, and burnout.

Jenny's approach combines education, skill-building, emotional support, and nervous system regulation to help women work with their brains rather than against them.

Why do so many women with ADHD struggle with perfectionism and burnout? 

Many women with ADHD spend years compensating for executive functioning challenges by working harder, overpreparing, people-pleasing, and holding themselves to unrealistic standards. Over time, this can lead to chronic stress, burnout, anxiety, and a harsh inner critic. 

Jenny helps clients understand these patterns with compassion and develop more sustainable ways of working with their brains. 

Can ADHD and trauma exist together? 

Yes

Many women experience both ADHD and the effects of trauma, difficult relationships, attachment wounds, or chronic stress. While ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition, the experience of growing up misunderstood, criticized, or constantly feeling "different" can create additional emotional challenges. 

Jenny helps clients understand both pieces of the puzzle so treatment can address the whole person rather than focusing on a single diagnosis. 

Online Therapy in Texas

Can I work with Jenny if I live in Texas?

Yes.

Jenny provides virtual therapy throughout Texas, allowing clients to access specialized care from anywhere in the state.

Whether you live in Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Lubbock, Corpus Christi, Amarillo, or a smaller community, telehealth makes therapy more accessible and convenient.

Is online therapy effective?

Research consistently shows that telehealth therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy for many mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, ADHD, stress management, and emotional regulation.

Many clients appreciate the flexibility, privacy, and convenience of attending sessions from home or another comfortable environment.

What issues can be treated through telehealth?

Jenny works with Texas and Colorado telehealth clients on:

• Trauma recovery

• EMDR therapy

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Attachment Injuries

• ADHD

• Stress and burnout

• Emotional regulation

• Women's mental health

• Relationship concerns

• Nervous system regulation

Online Therapy in Colorado

Can I work with Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S if I live in Colorado?

Yes.

Jenny is licensed to provide therapy to clients throughout Colorado via secure telehealth services.

This allows Colorado residents to access specialized trauma treatment, ADHD therapy, EMDR, nervous system regulation, and women's mental health support regardless of their location.

Jenny’s Colorado therapy clients receive the same level of care and attention as the clients Jenny sees in her Arlington, TX office.

Why do Colorado clients choose telehealth?

Telehealth allows clients to receive expert care without lengthy commutes or limited local provider options.

Many Colorado clients appreciate being able to access specialized trauma-informed therapy from the comfort and privacy of their own homes.

What can online therapy help with?

Colorado clients commonly seek support for:

• Trauma and PTSD

• Anxiety

• ADHD

• Depression

• Burnout

• Stress management

• Life transitions

• Emotional regulation

• Women's mental health concerns

• Nervous system dysregulation

EMDR vs. Talk Therapy

What is the difference between EMDR and traditional talk therapy?

Traditional talk therapy focuses on helping clients gain insight, process emotions, identify patterns, and develop healthier coping skills through conversation.

EMDR takes a different approach.

Rather than simply talking about difficult experiences, EMDR helps the brain reprocess memories and experiences that remain stuck in the nervous system.  EMDR helps to take a memory that wasn’t able to be fully processed, move it from the emotional side of the brain into the logic and reasoning side of the brain. The memory doesn’t change, but the emotional volume on it is turned down. A person can recall an event that happened without becoming flooded with emotions.

Both approaches can be incredibly valuable, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about how I practice EMDR here.

Is EMDR better than talk therapy?

Not necessarily.

The best approach depends on your goals, symptoms, history, and current needs.

For some clients, traditional therapy provides exactly the support they need.

For others, particularly those struggling with trauma, anxiety, negative self-beliefs, or experiences that continue to feel emotionally charged, EMDR may help create deeper and more lasting relief.

Jenny often integrates both approaches rather than treating them as either-or options.

Do I have to relive my trauma during EMDR?

No.

One common misconception is that EMDR requires clients to repeatedly relive traumatic experiences.

In reality, Jenny carefully guides clients through the process while prioritizing safety, stabilization, and nervous system regulation. Clients are never forced to move faster than they are ready for.

How do I know whether EMDR or talk therapy is right for me?

During your initial consultation and assessment, Jenny will help determine which approach is most appropriate based on your goals, symptoms, history, and readiness.

In many cases, the most effective treatment plan includes elements of both.

How Do I Get Started?

The best way to determine whether Jenny Lockwood LCSW-S is the right fit is to schedule a consultation.

Whether you're struggling with trauma, anxiety, ADHD, depression, nervous system dysregulation, relationship challenges, or you're seeking high-quality LCSW supervision, Jenny's goal is to help you move beyond survival mode and create a life that feels calmer, more connected, and more aligned with who you want to be.