About Janet
Janet Ferrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 37 years in mental health practice. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings and with people facing addiction, domestic violence, mood disorders, and trauma. Her background includes work with adolescents and adults though not with small children.
She practices in Tennessee and offers sessions in English. Janet focuses on treating anxiety alongside related concerns like depression, stress, sleep problems, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting challenges, bipolar mood concerns, anger, and life transitions. Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and codependency. Her approach is collaborative and built for each person.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy and incorporates mindfulness and guided imagery. Sessions are driven by the client's goals and paced to match their needs. Janet emphasizes creating a calm setting where people can speak honestly and work toward change.
She aims to help people build clearer thinking, better emotional regulation, and practical coping skills. Therapy is presented as a step-by-step process with concrete strategies to try between sessions. New conversations begin with a brief matching and scheduling step.
Janet works by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what fits their day. She frames therapy as a partnership focused on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their goals and pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful behaviors. It often includes exercises to try between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills; it suits people who want concrete tools for managing intense feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs shift over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client talk face to face when schedules or travel make in-person sessions hard. Phone sessions work for clearer audio with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, written skills practice, or a quick mood check between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into daily life while focusing on real behavioral change and skill building.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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