About Jean
Dr. Jean Frank helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with twenty years of experience.
She speaks English and Portuguese and works with people who are dealing with trauma, addiction, mood concerns, and relationship challenges. Her background includes clinical work in independent practice, corrections, schools, hospitals, and community mental health centers. She holds a Doctor in Biology from Universidade de Brasília and a Master of Science in Psychology from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
Background and approach
She also trained as a psychologist in Brazil and has focused coursework in trauma, dialectical behavior skills, telemental health, and mindfulness. In sessions she mixes practical strategies with gentle inquiry. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on mindfulness, acceptance-based ideas, attachment-informed perspectives, DBT skills, and EMDR when it fits the person’s needs. People can expect help strengthening coping skills, resolving conflicts, and managing intense emotions. She aims to support decision-making and steady progress during crises and life transitions.
If someone is unsure what to say or whether therapy is the right step, she helps them make that choice. Her online practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she does not accept international clients.
How online approaches and therapy styles work together
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and take committed steps toward them while learning to live alongside uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and experiments to reduce symptoms and build new habits. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps people process distressing memories so they are less upsetting over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your history, goals, and preferences and suggest strategies that fit. Sessions can blend methods as needed so the plan matches where you are and what you want to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular work on problems more realistic. Video calls let you meet face-to-face and work through exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a short check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief skill practice and ongoing support possible between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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