About Jana
Jana Grooms is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma, parenting strain, sleep or eating problems, attention differences, and career or life transitions. Jana brings 22 years of clinical experience to her work in Florida.
She holds the Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and the Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential. Her approach is warm, steady, and nonjudgmental.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical coping skills and clear steps that can reduce overwhelm. Jana uses a mix of cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and attachment-based ideas to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of relating to themselves and others. She often pairs skills practice with attention to past hurts and relational wounds.
That combination aims to address both symptoms and the feelings that fuel them. Jana also draws on dialectical strategies to help people tolerate strong emotions and make values-based choices. Jana emphasizes working at a pace that feels manageable.
She offers straightforward techniques parents and busy professionals can use between sessions. Conversations tend to be practical, with goal-setting and simple assignments when they fit. People come for short-term support and longer work alike.
Jana meets clients where they are and revisits goals as progress is made. She describes therapy as a collaborative effort to reduce distress and build more workable routines and relationships.
How Jana’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses. Online sessions can use this approach to look at patterns that show up in friendships, parenting, and romantic concerns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In virtual sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing those thoughts, and trying small behavioral experiments between appointments to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and life context and then suggest which methods to try first. That plan can change over time if something isn’t helping, so clients and therapist make decisions together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins or mid-week support, and text messaging suits shorter updates or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English