About Janel
Janel Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and trauma. She practices from Kentucky and brings five years of documented clinical experience to her work. Janel aims to make therapy a place where clients can drop the act of being fine and speak plainly about what hurts.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental setting and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
Sessions center on uncovering patterns that began as protection and learning new ways to live more authentically. The approach is supportive and practical, not lecturing. Janel uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take small, values-driven steps.
She also draws on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and mindfulness when trauma and difficult memories are present. Motivational interviewing helps when people are weighing change or feeling stuck. People often come to her for anxiety, depression, relationship problems, low self-worth, or trouble coping with life changes.
Janel also works with issues such as codependency, attachment concerns, addiction, and compassion fatigue. She helps clients set realistic goals and practice skills between sessions. Therapy with Janel is collaborative.
She listens, asks clear questions, and suggests exercises you can try between meetings. Progress is built step by step, at a pace that fits each person's life and needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take small steps that match their values. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experiences. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, EMDR, or a mix feels like the best fit and then adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make ongoing work easier. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for shorter or more mobile check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions, share questions, and practice skills in the moment. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and support steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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