About Janine
Janine Best is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee. She has 13 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Janine focuses on practical steps people can try right away to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She guides conversations with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped to each person's needs, with clear goals and simple strategies to build confidence and motivation. Janine helps people cope with grief and loss and with major life changes that leave them unsure what comes next.
Background and approach
Topics she often addresses include self-esteem, navigating career shifts, and managing symptoms of depression. Janine also supports concerns tied to trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and issues connected to adoption or foster care. She pays attention to communication problems and family-related stress when those affect an individual's well-being.
Janine works with people during midlife transitions and those figuring out young adult concerns. She also brings experience with aging and geriatric issues, immigration-related stress, and women's health matters. Her approach emphasizes steady progress and realistic steps rather than quick fixes.
People who prefer to speak in English or Haitian Creole can do so. Janine aims to make starting therapy straightforward, and she will collaborate with each person to set the pace and focus that fit their life.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Options
Janine draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. One approach focuses on practical coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce day-to-day anxiety and build routines that feel manageable. This helps people who need concrete steps to feel steadier and more in control. Another common approach emphasizes processing grief and difficult life events through supportive conversation and pacing to help reduce overwhelm and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janine will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts pacing and tools as conversations unfold so the plan stays relevant and doable for each individual.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold more traditional sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, brief check-ins between sessions and make it easier to share thoughts without scheduling a longer meeting. These formats aim to make consistent care more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole
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