About Jeana
Jeana Spencer-Rooks is a licensed social worker with 22 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Jeana uses a calm, respectful style and listens first to understand each person's story and priorities.
She works with people facing life changes, workplace strain, relationship challenges, and grief. Jeana also supports those coping with ADHD, addictions, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her practice welcomes diverse backgrounds and sexual identities, including LGBT clients. Her approach mixes practical tools and reflective work. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors.
Mindfulness and acceptance techniques help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward chosen values. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person. Jeana uses client-centered and motivational strategies to set small goals and keep momentum.
She aims to make the work feel manageable rather than overwhelming. People seeking change can expect clear, straightforward steps and space to talk through hard topics. Jeana emphasizes real-world skills you can use between sessions.
If you want help sorting options, reducing anxious moments, or building stronger coping habits, she offers steady support and practical direction.
Practical approaches for anxiety and life changes online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward them, even when uncomfortable feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and helping you live in line with what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that keep stress and depression active. It often includes experiments and goal-oriented tasks between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at your pace to find solutions that fit your life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jeana will collaborate with you to choose methods that match your goals, needs, and day-to-day routine. She adapts techniques as you progress so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing support possible between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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