About Janet
Dr. Janet Dean is a Kentucky psychologist with 28 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She offers a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical ways to manage daily challenges.
Her approach centers on listening first and then working together to find what helps most. Dr. Dean blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools.
She listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating. Then she helps people try small, concrete changes to how they think and act.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses relationship strain, questions about sexual identity, compulsive sexual behavior concerns, and the stress that comes with life transitions. She also helps people who struggle with low self-esteem, anger, or feelings of emptiness. In addition to clinical work, Dr.
Dean teaches psychology at the college level and mentors graduate students training to become counselors. Her research involves sexual identity and faith, clinician self-care, and how faith connects to mental health. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps.
People can expect respectful conversation, gentle challenge, and tools they can use between sessions. Her aim is to help clients find greater peace, clearer direction, and more satisfying relationships.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening carefully and following the person’s priorities. The therapist offers empathy, acceptance, and attention so clients can name what matters and feel understood. This helps when people are sorting identity questions, grief, or confusion about life direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It breaks problems into clear pieces so clients can try short experiments and see what changes. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD challenges, and mood regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, pace, and preferences. That choice can change over time as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone can fit into a busy day or lower bandwidth, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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