About Jane
Jane Collingwood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Wisconsin who focuses on evidence-informed, practical therapy for stress and anxiety. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people manage depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and addictive behaviors. Jane aims for a calm, straightforward approach so people feel heard and can take small steps toward change.
Her sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for coping with strong emotions and unwanted thoughts.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and commit to meaningful actions, while client-centered methods keep the conversation rooted in each person’s priorities. Jane has worked in homes, residential treatment settings, and outpatient clinics. That range informs how she adapts tools to different life situations, from chronic health conditions to caregiving stress and aging-related concerns.
She also addresses intimacy issues, communication problems, and family dynamics in individual sessions. People describe her style as nonjudgmental and curious. She emphasizes building a real therapeutic relationship before moving to skill-building.
Sessions focus on practical strategies you can try between meetings and on noticing progress, even when it feels small. Jane supports clients coping with life transitions, loss, and compassion fatigue. She works with concerns related to ADHD, anger, fertility, and chronic pain by blending talk therapy with specific coping skills.
In all work, she aims to match methods to what each person finds most useful.
How Jane’s approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with anger, relationship strain, and intense emotions.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Jane works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. She begins with a conversation about what matters most and then tries skills that feel practical and doable for everyday life.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit regular sessions into busy schedules. Video is good for in-depth work and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and flexibility when a full call isn’t possible. These options help people practice skills and stay connected to a therapist when life is hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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