About Jean
Jean Hair is a licensed clinical social worker in Maine with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and works with each person at their own pace.
Jean aims to make sessions a place where thoughts and feelings can be shared openly. She encourages people to use their spiritual beliefs if that feels helpful.
How Jean works
She values personal insight, mindfulness, and creative expression as part of healing. Her work blends talk therapy with practical tools. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful patterns and on dialectical skills for emotion regulation and balance.
She also uses EMDR for trauma processing and Jungian ideas for exploring dreams and inner symbols. Jean often invites clients to try simple mindfulness exercises and reflective practices between sessions. Art and dreams may be used as ways to surface feelings and meaning.
The pace is set by the client and shaped around real-life pressures and responsibilities. People who are burdened by caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, grief, codependency, or relationship struggles will find a practitioner who listens closely. Jean also supports those dealing with anger, control issues, abandonment or attachment wounds, and questions about life purpose.
Her background includes work across clinical settings over many years, and she brings that experience to online and phone-based formats. Sessions are practical, steady, and aimed at helping each person move toward more embodied, chosen living.
Jean lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Jean works with
The areas below are the ones Jean selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. It helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through worries and make choices about next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together. It provides clear, practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories. In online sessions it can be adapted to guide people through structured steps that reduce the hold of past events.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more visual cues help. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter exchanges, immediate support between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity over time.
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