About Jeannette
Jeannette Horton is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Washington who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and substance concerns. She also supports those coping with grief, self-esteem struggles, addictions, relationship and family issues, anger, career changes, and compassion fatigue. She brings 14 years of experience across outpatient chemical dependency treatment, community mental health agencies, and long-term care settings.
That background means she is used to working with practical problems and complex life situations.
Background and approach
Her experience includes work with older adults and veteran-related concerns from deployment history. In sessions she focuses first on making people feel safe and heard. She aims for candid, down-to-earth conversations and mixes empathy with straightforward feedback.
Humor and plain talk are part of how she helps people open up about difficult topics. Jeannette uses approaches that fit each person’s needs. She draws on Client-Centered methods to follow what matters most to the client, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and Motivational Interviewing to support change.
Mindfulness and Existential ideas also inform her work when they suit the situation. People meet her for a calm presence and practical tools. She helps clients build coping skills, improve communication, and navigate life transitions.
The first steps in her work are building trust and deciding together what goals to pursue.
Approach and format for online counseling
Jeannette integrates Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy into online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the person so goals come from the client. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and decide what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and provides concrete strategies to shift unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and behavior change.Finding the right approach is part of the process and she treats it as a collaborative choice. Early sessions focus on understanding the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and then she recommends methods to try. If something isn’t helping, she adjusts the work together to find a better fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English