About Jana
Jana Gumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Alaska who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, identity and LGBT concerns, eating and body image issues, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is warm and approachable, aimed at helping people feel comfortable enough to talk through difficult experiences.
Jana uses practical methods that fit each person's needs.
How Jana works
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address upsetting thoughts and behaviors. She also uses mindfulness practices to help people stay grounded and attachment-based ideas to improve relationships and patterns that began early in life. Her practice includes work with trauma and abuse, substance and alcohol issues, chronic illness and caregiver stress, plus the complex overlap of mental and physical health problems.
Jana tailors sessions to whatever a person brings, focusing on small, workable changes and clearer communication. Jana has four years of clinical experience and holds an LCSW in Alaska. She aims to be direct and compassionate in sessions, helping people set realistic goals and try new skills between meetings.
Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental, inviting honest conversation. People start by sharing immediate concerns and then together decide which tools make sense. Jana recognizes that recovery and coping look different for everyone and adjusts her pace to match what a person can manage.
Jana lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Jana works with
The areas below are the ones Jana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alaska |
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Online support options
How Jana’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and connection. In online sessions this can mean talking through relationship histories and practicing new ways of relating to others and to oneself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching manageable tools to use between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she will suggest methods and adjust them as needed so the plan fits your life and your pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text let people check in, do brief work, or follow up between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy or changing schedule while still using attachment and CBT approaches to address symptoms and relationship patterns.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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