About Jana
Jana Gumley is an Alaska-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma, and related concerns. She brings four years of clinical experience and a calm, approachable manner to sessions. Jana aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about what is hard for them.
She values warmth, curiosity, and practical steps that fit real life. Jana adapts her methods to each person’s situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses mindfulness practices to build steady attention and reduce reactivity during stressful moments. Attachment-based ideas inform how Jana looks at relationship patterns and abandonment concerns.
She integrates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people who bring early life or sexual trauma into sessions. Her overall aim is to mix practical skills and deeper processing so progress feels meaningful and doable. Her background includes work across age ranges and cultural settings.
That variety supports flexible thinking about coping with grief, substance use concerns, chronic illness, body image, and parenting stress. Jana brings a nonjudgmental stance to complex problems like codependency, blended family issues, and career-related strain. People can expect straightforward conversation, structured tools, and space to process emotions.
Jana encourages collaborative planning so goals are clear and measurable. She acknowledges every step forward as important, and she helps people build habits that hold up beyond individual sessions.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Jana commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice patterns of thought and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and helps people shift unhelpful patterns around closeness and abandonment.She also draws on mindfulness practices to build clearer awareness of emotions and reduce reactivity in stressful moments. Together these approaches let sessions include both skills training and deeper processing, depending on what a person needs. Finding the right mix is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which methods fit the client’s goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging let clients send notes or brief updates between sessions and fit quick check-ins into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use therapy tools in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English
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