About Jane
Jane Rhea is a licensed clinical social worker with eleven years of experience. She centers conversations on what matters to each person and helps untangle stress and anxiety. Jane uses straightforward, practical steps so parents and adults can try small changes right away.
She brings a disability-affirming and neurodiversity-aware perspective to clinical work. That means she recognizes how social barriers and identity can shape daily struggles like anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or challenges at work.
Background and approach
Jane talks through concerns about ADHD, Autism, and chronic illness in plain language and with respect for individual experience. Her approach blends client-centered listening with mindfulness and motivational methods. Sessions often focus on clarifying goals, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying doable strategies between meetings.
She can also use narrative and solution-focused techniques to reframe problems and identify next steps. Jane has professional experience across community and disability settings and draws on that background when discussing life transitions and career questions. She supports people wrestling with compassion fatigue, social anxiety, bipolar mood concerns, trauma, or the impacts of traumatic brain injury.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Jane aims to make therapy feel practical and relevant so clients can test new ways of coping and decision-making in everyday life.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Jane uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities and build a plan from there. That means sessions begin by listening to what matters most, then shaping goals together and deciding which tools to try first. Client-centered work is useful for anxiety, career decisions, and navigating life changes.She also uses mindfulness therapy to help people notice stress reactions and develop simple practices that calm the body and mind. Mindfulness techniques can be brief and easy to use between meetings, which fits well with remote formats. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find the reasons they want change and to turn those reasons into small, achievable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and she works collaboratively to choose methods that match each person’s needs and preferences. Goals, comfort with different formats, and day-to-day demands guide that choice so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone calls can be a lighter check-in, chat suits quick updates, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for work, caregiving, or limited bandwidth while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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