About Jana
Jana Grooms is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship struggles. She offers steady, respectful care and aims to create a calm space for people to talk about what feels overwhelming. Jana brings 22 years of clinical experience and works from Florida as a licensed clinical professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens first and tailors the next steps to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often include cognitive behavioral techniques, skills from dialectical behavior therapy, and attachment-based ideas to strengthen relationships and emotional regulation. Jana also draws on existential therapy to help people find meaning during big life changes. She uses brief, structured strategies when someone needs immediate coping tools and slower reflective work when deeper themes emerge.
The goal is to build useful habits and clearer self-understanding. In sessions she emphasizes grounding and breath-based practices alongside talk therapy. That can help when memories, panic, or intense emotions make functioning harder.
She focuses on small, manageable steps toward feeling steadier day to day. Jana supports people working through issues such as parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career stress, ADHD concerns, and identity questions. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aiming to help each person feel heard and more able to make the changes they want.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jana uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on practical steps and experiments to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills are useful for intense emotions, anger, or relationship conflicts that feel overwhelming.
Attachment-based ideas are woven into work on relationships and self-worth, helping people understand patterns that repeat in close connections and try new ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jana will collaborate with each person to identify goals and pick methods that fit their needs and preferences. She adjusts pace and techniques as progress unfolds so the plan feels realistic and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet those goals. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from home, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life while still using the clinical tools described above.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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