About Jean
Dr. Jean Frank helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with two decades of experience.
Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese. She accepts online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Her approach draws on several practical methods to meet each person where they are.
She uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to notice thoughts and build workable habits.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas help people understand patterns in close relationships. When trauma is present, she may use EMDR to address painful memories. Jean frames therapy as collaborative problem solving.
She helps people strengthen coping skills, reduce reactivity, and make decisions that match their values. Work may include problem-solving, mindfulness practice, emotion regulation skills, and planning small behavior changes. Her background spans independent practice, corrections, schools, hospitals, and community mental health centers.
That variety informs a practical focus on real-life challenges like addiction, chronic illness, parenting stress, and first responder strain. She has also worked with grief, bipolar concerns, eating issues, and anger. Jean completed advanced study in psychology and holds a doctoral degree in biology from Universidade de Brasília.
She brings 20 years of clinical experience and ongoing professional development to each session. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts, clarify values, and take small committed steps toward a life that matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test small behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms like depression, anxiety, and problems with sleep and concentration. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that works on processing distressing memories and reducing their emotional charge when trauma is a central concern.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn’t, and the process is collaborative at every step.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or hands-free conversation is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, send brief updates, or do short skill practice when schedules are tight. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese