About Jean
Dr. Jean Kerry is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, and low self-esteem in practical ways.
Her warm approach aims to make sessions feel clear and doable for busy lives. She draws on client-centered therapy to meet people where they are and build on their strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with realistic, useful ones.
How Jean works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are practical in tense moments. Dr. Kerry also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy and elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are part of the struggle.
These methods support clearer communication and repair after conflict. She combines those tools with simple, real-world techniques for day-to-day challenges. People often come to her for concerns such as depression, post-traumatic stress, ongoing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and workplace difficulties.
She helps people tackle issues like control struggles, guilt and shame, isolation, and difficulties with life purpose. The emphasis is on small, steady changes that add up over time. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Dr. Kerry explains concepts in straightforward language and sets concrete steps to practice between meetings. Her Florida practice uses approaches meant to fit into real schedules and real lives.
Jean lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person’s experience and building on their strengths. In practice it means the therapist listens closely, reflects what they hear, and helps the person decide what changes feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides clear skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping during crises. It offers short, actionable tools for regulation and distress tolerance that people can practice between sessions. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will talk through what seems most helpful based on the person’s goals and preferences and adjust as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which add scheduling flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or between-session guidance. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on meaningful change.
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