About Jane
Jane Ayers is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She speaks plainly, listens closely, and focuses on practical steps that people can use between sessions. Her style is collaborative and trauma-informed.
Jane centers a person’s history and values when setting goals. She helps people identify what matters to them, then works with them to build small steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
In sessions she mixes talk and skills. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice patterns of thought and behavior. She draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and on acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values and committed action.
Jane also pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns. That can be useful for people dealing with adoption and foster care histories, abandonment worries, family of origin issues, or attachment-related struggles. She tailors the pace and focus to each person’s needs.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns over two decades, including addiction, body image, chronic illness, dissociation, and hoarding. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients while based in Texas. Jane aims to make therapy understandable and doable for people juggling busy lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small actions that align with those values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want more purposeful direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and then practice new ways of thinking and acting. It is often chosen for anxiety, depression, and habit change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help when someone wants to understand trust, closeness, or repeated relationship problems.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That might mean more skills practice in one season and deeper exploration of past patterns in another.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face when longer conversations are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or times when writing feels more natural. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English