About Jeanette
Jeanette Grissom is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Indiana with four decades of experience. She centers therapy on practical strategies that help people feel steadier and more capable. She offers conversation, skills practice, and planning to address the issues a person brings to sessions.
Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, and postpartum depression.
Background and approach
Additional areas she commonly addresses include caregiver stress, codependency, process and substance addictions, and multicultural or veteran-related concerns. Jeanette uses a blend of approaches to match each person’s situation. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people shift thinking and clarify values.
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) ideas when emotions and relationships are central. Her process is collaborative and practical. She builds an individual treatment plan that sets clear, manageable steps.
Sessions can include skills practice, problem solving, trauma-focused work, and motivational conversations aimed at encouraging change. People meet with Jeanette by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works in outpatient settings and designs care around each person’s goals.
To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time to start.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions that align with those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. It is helpful for panic, low mood, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that guides a person through processing distressing memories and reducing their emotional charge; it is often used for post-traumatic stress and trauma symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those needs. Together they choose techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the work practical and goal oriented.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation more flexible. Video is useful for longer therapy work and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can work well for short check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain regular contact between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English