About Jana
Jana Kessler is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD-related focus concerns, and LGBTQ issues. Jana aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and learn clearer ways to cope.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work. Sessions start by listening to what matters most and identifying small, practical steps.
Background and approach
Jana uses approaches that tend to be direct and goal-oriented, while keeping the client’s values central. In sessions she helps people notice patterns in thought and behavior and practices ways to shift them. She also supports people who are struggling with relationship stress, body image, family of origin concerns, or feelings of emptiness.
For clients with attention or memory difficulties she focuses on strategies that make daily life more manageable. Her background includes many years working with a range of life challenges, including coping after disasters, dissociation, eating and food-related issues, codependency, and gender dysphoria. Jana mixes practical techniques with listening and reflection to help clients move toward goals that matter to them.
She offers conversations that are straightforward and respectful. The work tends to be collaborative, with clear steps you can try between sessions. Jana aims to support people through change at a pace that fits their life.
How Jana’s Methods Translate to Online Sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. It helps people feel heard and clarifies their own goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and practices simple techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jana will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest ways to blend methods. Decisions about pacing and techniques are made together so the plan fits the client’s life and needs.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing encouragement, and when a written format helps organize thoughts. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try different ways of working until the right match is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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