About Jean
Jean Beatie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who has spent decades helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, straightforward approach to sessions and focuses on practical steps clients can use each day. Jean draws on 35 years of counseling experience across many settings.
Early work on an inpatient psychiatric unit and at a shelter for women shaped her understanding of trauma, addiction, and safety.
Background and approach
She has also worked as a children’s therapist and currently serves as an elementary school counselor, giving her a broad view of how problems show up at different life stages. Her sessions tend to be warm and collaborative. Jean starts by listening and then helps clients set clear, achievable goals.
She uses techniques from client-centered work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods to build plans that fit each person’s needs. People come to her with a wide range of concerns, including grief, depression, relationship and family conflict, parenting strain, obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, and life changes.
She also supports those dealing with codependency, sexual assault and abuse, and issues related to aging and chronic loss. Jean explains things plainly and avoids quick fixes. She emphasizes steady progress and practical skills people can practice between sessions.
Her background across inpatient care, shelters, schools, and outpatient settings informs a flexible style that adapts to what the client needs next.
How Jean’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a relationship that fits the person in front of the therapist. It helps people feel heard and then move toward goals at their own pace. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety symptoms day to day. These skills can be used between sessions for immediate relief.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jean discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. Together they pick tools and steps that match the client’s needs, whether the focus is on symptom relief, coping skills, or solving a specific problem.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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