About Janel
Janel Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Kentucky. She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people wrestling with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and low self-worth. Janel aims to make the therapy space a place where clients can stop pretending they are okay and begin honest, practical work on what matters to them.
Janel centers her approach on understanding how protective patterns begin and how those patterns keep people stuck.
How Janel works
She listens for the roots of people-pleasing, codependency, perfectionism, and feelings of unworthiness. From there she and the client map small, doable steps toward change. Her work includes a mix of acceptance and commitment techniques and cognitive behavior strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and actions.
Janel also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed. For trauma-related goals she incorporates EMDR tools when appropriate. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Janel uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify values and goals, then supports movement toward them. She also addresses relationship strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and struggles with identity and life purpose. People who want straightforward, empathetic conversation with actionable next steps tend to fit well with her style.
Janel offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
Janel lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Janel works with
The areas below are the ones Janel 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
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
How Janel’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking committed action toward those values. It helps people move past avoidance and toward more meaningful daily choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is used for trauma-related symptoms by processing distressing memories in a stepwise way.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janel treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help figure out what fits the client's needs, goals, and preferences. She often combines tools from different approaches to match each person's situation and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make consistent therapy more flexible and easier to attend.
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