THE RELATIONSHIP CENTER
JINGER KINNER
My Focus Areas
​Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: I am trained in a couple of different treatment options for OCD, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT). At the end of the day, the goal is the same: to change your response to OCD, increase the trust you have in yourself, and to live your life according to your values.
Anxiety: It’s normal to feel anxious, like that feeling you get before you’re about to have a difficult conversation or give a public speech. Even if it's an exciting or positive event, we tend to latch on to the discomfort of anxiety, trying our hardest to get rid of it. In the end, that only makes things worse. My goal is to help you understand your anxiety and reduce avoidance so that you can more confidently live your life.
Self Compassion: It is so easy to beat ourselves up. Negative messaging received early in our lives from both those close to us and the world at large can influence how we feel about ourselves but that doesn’t mean the messaging is true. Guilt and shame can run rampant if left unchecked. The antidote to this is self compassion: meeting yourself where you are at with care, understanding, and acceptance of all parts and experiences of self with reduced judgment.
Approach
I believe that there is a level of accountability as a therapist. I wouldn't give my clients ideas and options that I wouldn't do myself. I believe we are often hardest on ourselves so increasing self compassion is always at the forefront of my work. For people who want long term, ongoing support, I’d be a good fit for you if you are a verbal processor and enjoy deep and meaningful conversations to help you to better understand yourself and to build your own life narrative. If you are looking for specific and highly structured treatment for OCD, such as ERP or I-CBT, I can also provide that. When we first meet we can review options and create a plan specific to your unique needs.
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Jinger Kinner
They/She
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Marriage and Family Therapist
Qualifications
I received my Master of Science in Education from The University of Akron and have been licensed as a professional counselor in Ohio since 2012. Early on in my career, I worked in community mental health, primarily helping children in foster care. I then moved on to the field of employee assistance programming where I’ve helped an array of people, from those on the front lines of various industries to those in the C-suite. As the need for mental health treatment continued to rise during the start of the pandemic, I saw it as the right time to get back into clinical work and start to specialize in helping those who struggle with anxiety, OCD, and traumatic stress - areas where I not only have clinical training in treating but in which I also have lived experience.
Personal Information
Outside of the therapy room, I highly value movement. You can find me frequently running, swimming, biking (but not doing triathlons), or picking up sort of heavy things and dropping them while jamming out to really loud music in my ears. When I’m not doing that, you can find me with my spouse either traveling or cuddling with our hedgehogs. We met doing stand up comedy but that doesn’t mean we’re funny.