About Janna
Janna Fennell greets people with directness and steady support. She encourages honest work and aims to help clients stop self-sabotaging behaviors. Her style is straightforward but compassionate, and she asks practical questions that lead to change.
Janna uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside acceptance and mindfulness practices. She offers exercises to try between sessions, such as breathwork and progressive muscle relaxation. Sessions focus on skills you can keep using after therapy ends so you can manage stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems more effectively.
How Janna works
With ten years of clinical experience, Janna draws on work she has done in schools, independent practice, and online settings. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from Bethel University and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College. Her credentials include LPC and LPCC in Minnesota and Virginia.
She helps people facing a wide range of concerns including relationship and family issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, career stress, and body image. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, eating and food-related struggles, and caregiver stress. Janna encourages steady attendance and active participation.
She expects honesty and engagement from clients and offers direct feedback along with practical tools. If someone is ready to do the work and try new strategies, she provides guidance and accountability throughout the process.
Janna lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Janna works with
The areas below are the ones Janna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work and practical tools
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values while noticing difficult thoughts. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it focuses on meaningful action instead of getting stuck on thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is skill oriented and looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits for mood, sleep, and worry.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan so sessions remain focused and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow a full conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit brief check-ins or quick skill practice between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping steady progress toward goals.
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