About Jane
Jane Williams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nearly four decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps people can take now to feel steadier and more in control. Her style is down-to-earth and respectful, aimed at making the first steps feel doable.
She uses a client-centered way of working that treats each person as the expert in their own life.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize real-world skills drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness strategies where helpful. Conversations are goal-focused and short-term plans are common when people want quicker results. Jane prefers to build therapy around a person’s strengths.
She helps clients name concrete goals, test small changes, and track what works. For people coping with life changes, grief, parenting stress, or work pressure, she offers step-by-step guidance rather than vague suggestions. Over 39 years she has worked with a wide range of issues including addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver strain.
She also addresses identity and LGBT concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, and chronic health-related stress. Sessions are offered in English and she practices from Massachusetts. Jane frames the therapeutic process as collaborative - she listens, suggests options, and helps clients choose what feels most useful for their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jane often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood swings. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps even when feelings are uncomfortable.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jane treats therapy as a collaboration and will help clients try different methods to see what fits best. Together they set goals, review progress, and adjust plans based on what helps most for daily life and long-term aims.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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