Marriage & Family Therapy – Jenny Istre, LPC, LMFT
Lafayette, Louisiana is the base for Jenny Istre’s mental health counseling practice, where she holds credentials as both a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). Istre completed her Master’s Degree in Counselor Education in 2004 from the University of New Orleans (UNO), bringing over two decades of professional counseling experience to her work with clients across southern Louisiana.
The practice serves teens, adults, couples, and families. Istre’s stated clinical background includes work within the juvenile court system alongside at-risk youth, couples therapy focused on relationship resolution, and family counseling. Her stated areas of focus include helping couples navigate relationship challenges and supporting families in finding middle ground across differing perspectives and circumstances. The site describes a particular emphasis on the role self-care plays across the therapeutic process and in clients’ ongoing personal journeys.
Istre describes her approach as drawing on both professional training and personal lived experience, noting that navigating personal difficulty has informed her understanding of the counseling process and her connection with clients facing their own hardships. Two daughters are mentioned in the personal background section of the site, as is previous experience with fertility challenges, shared as context for the therapist’s perspective. The practice website includes a blog component offering additional written content for site visitors.
The site does not enumerate specific therapeutic modalities such as CBT, EMDR, or DBT, nor does it provide details on session formats (in-person versus telehealth), accepted insurance carriers, self-pay rates, or session fees. Specific clinical specialties beyond the general populations listed above are not detailed on the available page content. Contact information is accessible through the website’s dedicated contact page, though direct phone numbers or email addresses are not displayed in the main page content reviewed.
No specific year of practice establishment is stated beyond the therapist’s graduate degree completion date of 2004. The practice website is hosted on WordPress.com.