About Janine
Janine Best helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She guides clients who are facing low self-esteem, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, or career uncertainty. Janine writes with a direct, compassionate voice and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
Janine is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Tennessee. She brings 13 years of professional experience to sessions. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
How Janine works
Sessions are shaped around what the person needs. Janine adapts conversations and plans to each situation. That can mean short-term coping strategies or longer work on confidence and meaning.
She also works with concerns such as adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric transitions, communication and family problems, immigration challenges, and midlife shifts. Janine pays attention to practical problem solving as well as the emotions under those problems. People who choose her often want straightforward guidance and collaborative planning.
Janine aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions. She supports self-love and empowerment for women and young adults as part of that work.
What Janine works with
The areas below are the ones Janine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Haitian Creole |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Janine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and problem solving. One common approach emphasizes practical coping skills for stress and anxiety such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another approach concentrates on processing grief and trauma in paced steps, helping people name difficult feelings and build routines that restore stability and hope. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, life situation, and preferences, then try methods that fit those priorities. Together they will check what helps and adjust the plan when needed. Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, quick skill coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.Start online instead of waiting
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