About Jeanne
Jeanne Stearns is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship struggles, trauma, or depression. Jeanne writes in plain terms and aims to make each session feel manageable for someone who is worried and busy.
Jeanne starts by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. She works from a client-centered stance, which means the person's goals guide the work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, not just talk about problems. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Motivational interviewing is used when people are ambivalent about change, such as with substance use or lifestyle shifts.
Narrative and solution-focused ideas help people retell difficult experiences and spot small wins that can be built on. Over her career Jeanne has supported people through grief, parenting stress, relationship conflict, career transitions, and midlife shifts. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, social anxiety, and process addictions like gambling or exercise when these show up in someone's life.
Her approach is steady and practical, focused on small changes that add up. Jeanne practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. She emphasizes collaboration and clear steps so people leave sessions with something to try.
The aim is to help people regain a sense of control and move toward the life they want.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's goals and perspective. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set aims that matter to them; this approach supports work on relationships, self-esteem, and life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that make problems worse and testing small changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it offers clear exercises and skills people can practice between sessions.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or mixed about change, such as with addiction or lifestyle shifts. It uses open questions and gentle reflection to help people find their own reasons to move forward.
Jeanne treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with clients about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Collaboration guides which tools are emphasized and how fast to move.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives flexibility for different days and needs. Video works well for full sessions and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports quick progress notes and reminders. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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