About Jean
Jean Hair is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Maine. She has 26 years of experience and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and life changes. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about their concerns.
In sessions she listens first, then helps people notice patterns that get in the way of feeling better. She uses talk therapy, mindfulness, and guided self-reflection to build insight and practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Jean also brings in creative approaches such as art for self-expression and paying attention to dreams when that fits a client's process. Jean incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, as one option for processing traumatic memories. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Client-Centered Therapy is part of how she holds the relationship - putting the person and their goals at the center of the work. She welcomes conversations about spiritual beliefs and how those beliefs can support healing. Jean emphasizes gradual steps and real-world practices to manage anxiety, addiction issues, relationship strain, caregiving stress, and anger.
Her approach balances emotional understanding with tangible tools. People often come for help with parenting stress, compassion fatigue, abandonment or attachment concerns, and end-of-life or hospice related grief. Jean works collaboratively to identify practical next steps and sustainable changes that fit each person's life.
How Jean’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person and their goals. It involves listening, reflecting, and collaborating to help clients find their own answers and build confidence. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. Jean uses CBT techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different responses. This can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change.
EMDR is used as a tool to process traumatic memories that keep causing distress. When appropriate, Jean introduces EMDR to help reduce the intensity of those memories and their impact on daily life.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Jean will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they choose strategies and adjust them over time so the work fits the client's needs.
Online sessions give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided EMDR work when needed. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, written reflection, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to continue with therapy while managing work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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