About Jana
Jana Dobesova is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She works with concerns like self-esteem, parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also supports people navigating LGBT issues, family conflict, and long-term health or caregiving challenges.
Her style is straightforward and supportive. She focuses on what a person can control now and talks through thoughts that shape emotions and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions mix practical strategies with time to process feelings and past experiences. Jana draws from several evidence-based approaches to match what each person needs. That can mean learning skills to change unhelpful thinking, noticing values and committed action, or exploring attachment patterns that affect close relationships.
She uses these methods in a calm, collaborative way. Her background includes a Master’s degree in counseling from East Tennessee State University and 12 years of clinical experience. Jana holds LPC licensure in Tennessee and has worked with people across many concerns, including trauma, addiction, adoption and foster care issues, and chronic illness or pain.
People who choose her can expect a mix of concrete tools and respectful listening. She emphasizes step-by-step progress and helps clients try new ways of coping between sessions. Jana encourages questions and jointly sets goals that feel realistic for day-to-day life.
How Jana's Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small, meaningful steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and motivation by teaching ways to act despite uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and provides concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, anger, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape trust and emotion regulation, which can help with relationship tension, trauma, and parenting stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they try methods for a few sessions and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is good for face-to-face interaction, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging works for quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and continuing work between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English