About Jane
Jane Helfman is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She practices in New York and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. Her approach centers on clear conversations and steady guidance to help people feel more capable and calm.
She helps people facing relationship strain and parenting challenges by breaking problems into small, doable steps. She also works with those coping with major life changes and transitions, such as divorce, midlife shifts, or caring for aging relatives.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to boost confidence and rebuild a sense of control. Loneliness, social anxiety, and issues around self-worth are common topics she addresses. Jane talks through feelings of guilt, shame, and grief in ways that make them easier to understand.
She helps people practice communication skills and set healthier boundaries. Her method is straightforward and collaborative. She creates an open space where people can share their thoughts without fear of judgment.
Together they develop practical tools for coping, problem solving, and improving daily routines. Jane offers sessions using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the client.
Her aim is to support people as they take the next small steps toward a more balanced life.
Approaches and online care for everyday anxiety
Jane uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach emphasizes skills for managing worry and stress through step-by-step coping strategies and behavioral experiments that help reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship skills by practicing clear requests, setting boundaries, and rehearsing difficult conversations to ease social anxiety and interpersonal strain.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to prioritize as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging offers shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving duties, or busy days while keeping consistent care accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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