About Janet
Janet Ferrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years in mental health care. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings and has long experience helping people with addiction and a range of mood and stress concerns. Janet focuses on meeting each person where they are and tailoring sessions to fit individual needs.
Janet has supported people coping with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also helps with relationship strain, parenting stress, sleeping problems, anger, and challenges around self-esteem.
How Janet works
Her practice includes work on adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, codependency, and caregiver stress. Her clinical approach draws on cognitive behavioral methods and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, with an emphasis on practical skills people can use between sessions. She also uses client-centered listening and emotionally focused ideas to help people understand their feelings and relationships.
Mindfulness and imagery are tools she offers to reduce stress and calm the nervous system. Janet aims for a calm, respectful atmosphere where people can talk honestly about what’s hard. She says therapy should adapt to each person rather than forcing a single method on everyone.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on real-life changes that matter at home, work, and school. Janet practices in Tennessee and conducts work in English. She has long experience with adults and adolescents, and she does not work with small children.
Her background includes many years addressing addictions, domestic violence consequences, and co-occurring mental health needs.
Janet lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Janet works with
The areas below are the ones Janet selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 37 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people set their own goals. It’s useful when someone needs space to talk through feelings and decide what changes they want to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved relationships, which can help with intense mood swings and impulsive responses.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to test methods and adjust based on what helps. That means sessions can shift from skills practice to deeper emotional work depending on goals and what’s happening in daily life.
Online therapy offers several flexible formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs and let people pick the format that best supports their pace and comfort.
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