Helping children, teens, and families move from stuck and overwhelmed to understood, connected, and growing.
Grounded in family systems thinking, with a focus on school challenges and supporting children, teens, and young adults and the parents who love them.
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"You've tried the charts, the consequences, the advice from well-meaning friends. What your family may need isn't another strategy. It's a new way of understanding each other."
Counseling for children, teens, young adults and the people who love them. Telehealth across Maryland now, with in-person sessions in the Laurel area.
How I Can Help
Areas of Support
Families often reach out for support when they are navigating:
Anxiety & Worry
Emotional Regulation
School Challenges & Academic Stress
Family Conflict & Communication
Life Transitions & Adjustment
Parenting Support
Whether your child is struggling with anxiety, big emotions, school stress, family conflict, or a major life transition, counseling can provide support, understanding, and practical tools for growth.
How I Work
Therapy with me is a partnership. I work with your child, and I work with you.
Families who do this work together move from constant friction to genuine connection — and children who feel understood at home show up differently everywhere else.
When I work with children, teens, and young adults I'm really working with families. Kids don't struggle in a vacuum, and they don't heal in one either. The most lasting change happens when parents and caregivers are part of the process: sometimes joining sessions, sometimes practicing new ways of connecting at home, always staying curious about their own part in the family's patterns.
That's not because anyone is to blame. It's because families are systems, and when one part shifts, everything can shift with it. The families who see the most growth here are the ones willing to grow together.
For families who want it, I'm glad to integrate faith and spiritual values into our work. For families who don't, I will never impose mine. You decide what belongs in our conversations.
Why Families Choose This Practice
What makes this practice different
Private and Flexible
This is a private-pay practice. No insurance company decides how many sessions your child receives or requires a diagnosis before care can begin. Superbills are available if you'd like to seek reimbursement through your own out-of-network benefits.
A Whole-Family Approach
Children grow best when families grow together. You'll be a partner in this work, not a spectator to it.
Honest and Grounded
You'll get warmth, and you'll also get truth. Real feedback, practical steps, and a plan that fits your actual family, not an ideal one.
Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Teens
If your child is neurodivergent — ADHD, learning differences, or a profile that doesn't fit a tidy label — you've probably spent years translating your loved one to a world that wasn't built with their unique needs in mind.
Therapy that Honors Their Brain
Our work together respects and supports how your child's brain actually works. We create a space where they don't need to "translate" themselves.
Expert School System Navigation
Leverage years of experience as a school counselor and special education advocate. I understand IEPs, 504 plans, and what school meetings feel like from a parent's perspective.
Holistic Home & School Support
Get support for the unique parenting neurodivergence asks of you, and a partner who understands both the home and school sides of your child's life.
Getting Started Is Simple
Three steps to begin
Step One: Schedule a Free Consultation
Share what's going on, ask anything, and we'll decide together whether this is the right fit. If it isn't, I'll point you toward someone who is.
Step Two: We Get the Full Picture
In our first sessions, I get to know your child and your family: the strengths, the stuck points, and the patterns everyone is living inside.
Step Three: We Grow Together
With a clear direction, we work session by session, with practices that carry the change home, until your family feels the difference and knows how to keep it.
About
About Lena

Lena Jackson, MS, NCC, LGPC is a counselor serving children, teens, and young adults across Maryland. Her work centers on a simple conviction: lasting change for a child happens through, not around, the family. As a former school counselor and special education advocate, Lena brings something rare: she knows your child's world from the inside — the classroom, the IEP table, and the therapy room. Lena also serves as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University's School of Education.
Telehealth sessions are available now, and in-person sessions in North Laurel. The office location is shared when you schedule.
Good Faith Estimate
Your Right to a Good Faith Estimate
Under the federal No Surprises Act, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate explaining how much your care will cost. Health care providers are required to give clients who don't have insurance, or who are not using insurance, an estimate of the expected charges for services.
When You'll Receive It
You will receive a Good Faith Estimate in writing before your first session, and you can also request one at any time before scheduling.
If Your Bill Is Higher
If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
More Information
For questions or more information, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises.
Lena Jackson, MS, NCC, LGPC
Telehealth across Maryland. In-person sessions in North Laurel.
Contact
Email: lena@lenajacksoncounseling.com
Phone: 410.870.9770
The most lasting change happens when families grow together.
Telehealth
Serving Families Across Maryland
Available Now - Telehealth
Telehealth sessions are available now for families throughout Maryland from the comfort of your own home.
In-Person
In-person sessions in North Laurel. The office location is shared when you schedule.
Private Pay
No insurance required. No diagnosis required to begin.
This is a private-pay practice. Superbills are available if you'd like to seek reimbursement through your own out-of-network benefits.
Your Privacy
No insurance company involved in your care decisions.
Your Timeline
You and your clinician decide how many sessions are right for your family.
Superbills Available
Seek out-of-network reimbursement through your own insurance benefits.