About Janna
Janna Fennell is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who helps people who are overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, sleep problems, and life changes. She speaks plainly and expects clients to do the work needed to make change. She offers practical tools and honest feedback while remaining compassionate and empathetic.
Her approach blends techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with acceptance-based and attachment-aware ways of working. Sessions often include skills practice like breathing exercises, mindfulness, and progressive muscle relaxation.
Background and approach
Janna aims for short-term skill building while also addressing deeper patterns that keep people stuck. Janna draws on ten years of clinical work across schools, independent practice, and online settings. Her background includes supporting people with anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, relationship and attachment issues, and sleep difficulties.
She has experience helping clients manage anger, codependency, eating-related problems, and career or life transition stress. In sessions she is direct and collaborative. She asks clear questions, offers feedback, and gives practical homework to try between meetings.
Clients who are willing to reflect and practice tend to move forward more quickly. Janna holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and is licensed as an LPC and LPCC in Minnesota and Virginia. She offers services in English and works with people from varied locations, including international clients.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, and then take steps that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections and trust, which can help with codependency, abandonment fears, and relationship conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick strategies to try, then adjust course based on what helps most in real life.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so sessions can fit around school, work, or caregiving duties. Video is useful for in-depth skill practice and reading nonverbal cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat are helpful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with while learning new skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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