About Jeanna
Jeanna Bradley is a licensed counselor in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She offers a steady, down-to-earth presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Jeanna uses straightforward conversation and real-world strategies to help clients cope with life changes and workplace strain.
Her style is collaborative and person-focused. Sessions often center on what matters most to the client and on small, achievable shifts in daily habits and thinking.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep someone stuck and introduces ways to try things differently between sessions. Jeanna draws on a mix of approaches, including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance-based practices, and client-centered conversation. She also brings techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and existential thinking when they match a person's goals.
The goal is to match methods to what a person needs, not to fit people into a single model. With 12 years of experience, she has worked with people managing trauma, chronic health issues, caregiving stress, and career pressures. She pays attention to emotions like shame, anger, and emptiness and helps clients build clearer communication and stronger self-regard.
Sessions aim to be practical and humane. Clients leave with specific tools to try, whether that means shifting unhelpful thinking, practicing acceptance, or experimenting with new ways to handle relationships and responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches and online care options
Jeanna commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so people can feel and function better. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, and then take values-based action that matters in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jeanna works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in about what is or isn’t helping and adjusts the plan together over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a longer check-in is needed without video. Live chat and text messaging let people send brief updates, ask quick questions, or work through exercises between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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