About Jana
Jana Dobesova is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and life transitions. She works with clients dealing with grief, trauma, parenting concerns, ADHD, and challenges related to self-esteem and career. Jana keeps language simple and focuses on practical steps so people can feel steadier day to day.
Her approach centers on skills people can use now. She pays attention to how thoughts shape feelings and actions.
Background and approach
Sessions may include talking things through, goal-focused exercises, and creative options like drawing or sandtray work when helpful. Jana uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance-focused methods, attachment-based perspectives, and client-centered conversation. She also brings motivational interviewing to conversations about change.
These methods inform how she helps people set small, achievable steps toward their goals. With 12 years of experience as a counselor, Jana combines practical tools with a warm, encouraging presence. She tends to emphasize what clients can control and builds on their strengths to reduce overwhelm and build confidence.
People often start by setting one or two clear goals for sessions. Jana supports pacing that fits a person’s day-to-day life and adapts methods to each situation. Her work aims to make coping feel more manageable and to help people move toward the life they want.
Jana holds a Master’s degree in counseling and maintains her LPC in Tennessee. She offers services in English and uses a straightforward, collaborative style with each person.
Approach and online options that meet you where you are
Jana uses several useful approaches to help people manage distress and make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing internal experiences, clarifying personal values, and taking committed action toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings appear. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people build more supported ways of connecting and responding to others.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. Jana treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods in session, and adjust strategies based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for longer sessions and deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows short check-ins during a break, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit care into work, parenting, and other routines while using approaches like CBT and ACT in ways that work for their day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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