Janet Ferrell , LPC

Janet Ferrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years in mental health. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings and has supported people facing addiction, domestic violence, and mood disorders. Janet has spent decades helping adolescents and adults; she does not work with small children.

Janet leans on practical, skills-based work. She often uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people manage strong emotions and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and guided imagery are tools she brings in to help with stress, sleep, and grounding during hard moments.

She focuses on issues commonly faced by women, including grief, self-esteem, relationship strain, parenting stress, and coping with life changes. Janet also addresses concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar symptoms, anger, and addictions. Additional areas she supports include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and adoption or foster care questions.

Janet says therapy should be tailored to the person. Sessions are paced to match each individual's needs, with attention to building skills and improving day-to-day functioning. She aims to make the room a calm place where people can talk honestly and learn new ways to cope.

People who want practical strategies and steady support tend to do well with her approach. She encourages clients to try small changes and build on what works, one step at a time.

Approaches that translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person needs most. It helps people feel heard and encourages self-directed change through empathic, nonjudgmental support.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and build routines that reduce anxiety, depression, and sleeping problems.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for intense emotions, anger, and relationship difficulties by offering concrete skills to use in stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest a blend of methods that fit those needs. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively what to try and adjust along the way.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep practicing skills between appointments.