About Jane
Jane Williams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Massachusetts. She brings 39 years of experience helping people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and major life changes. Jane focuses on practical steps that can reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. Sessions aim to identify clear goals and small, manageable steps toward them. She works from a client-centered stance, listening first and tailoring support to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Jane uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy to build moment-to-moment coping skills and values-based action. Motivational interviewing appears in her work when people want help finding the drive to change habits.
The focus is on practical choices and on what will actually fit into someone’s life. This can be useful for issues like substance use, sleep struggles, or difficulty following treatment plans. Over her career she has supported people with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, grief, career strain, ADHD, and chronic health challenges.
Jane frames therapy as collaboration - she helps people set realistic steps and supports them as they try those steps out in daily life.
How Jane Uses Practical Approaches Online
Jane often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking and behavior that keep them stuck, then practice small changes that improve mood and daily routines. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify their values and take actions that matter, even when feelings are uncomfortable.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jane treats therapy as a collaboration - she will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. If one way isn’t working she will adjust the plan together with the client.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework conversations, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility and practical ways to stay engaged with therapeutic work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- 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
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English