About Jan
Jan Stewart is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He focuses on practical steps to ease daily pressure and on helping people navigate major life changes. Jan speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel easier for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
He builds a simple, human connection first and then works alongside each person to address the issues they bring.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to focus on what is happening now and on decisions people can try between sessions. That can include small behavior changes, ways to manage strong feelings, and clearer thinking about relationships and goals. Jan draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them.
He also uses client-centered methods to keep the person's experience central in each session. Psychodynamic ideas are used when it helps to understand patterns that repeat across a person's life. Across 37 years in practice, he has worked with a wide range of concerns from grief and depression to trauma, addiction, caregiver stress, and issues that come with aging.
Jan also supports people facing career questions, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue from demanding work. Sessions are offered in English and take place through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. He is licensed in Tennessee as an LCSW and brings steady, straightforward support to each conversation.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Jan uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. ACT focuses on noticing internal experience and choosing actions that matter rather than getting stuck in avoidance. Client-Centered Therapy is another key part of his work and means sessions are guided by the person’s experience and goals. That approach emphasizes listening, respect, and building a trusting working relationship.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. He works collaboratively to test methods and adjust based on what helps most. Together the therapist and client will discuss goals, try techniques in session, and then see what fits best for the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and body language. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging can support quick updates, ongoing reflection, or times when typing feels more comfortable than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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