About Janell
Janell Brown is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, relationship strains, family concerns, trauma, and parenting worries. Janell aims to make the first step easier and affirms the courage it takes to begin therapy.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name what feels hard. Sessions are conversational and centered on what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Janell listens for patterns that cause pain and helps people notice small changes that make daily life easier. Her work draws on approaches that help people act in line with their values and manage difficult emotions. Techniques include acceptance strategies, cognitive tools to reframe unhelpful thoughts, and skills for regulating intense feelings.
Attachment-focused ideas guide conversations about close relationships and how early connection shapes current reactions. Janell also helps with specific concerns such as abandonment worries, communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, and caregiver stress. She uses straightforward skills to reduce impulsivity, lessen isolation, and address mood shifts.
When needed, sessions look at how cultural background and identity affect a person’s experience. Therapy sessions can come in different formats to fit life demands. Janell works with each person to choose a pace and style that feels manageable.
The focus is on steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Janell uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and still take steps toward what matters in life. ACT focuses on values-based action and simple mindfulness practices to reduce avoidance and increase meaning.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. Working with attachment ideas helps people change old patterns in present-day relationships and feel more supported in connections.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, life demands, and what feels most useful. They collaborate to try methods that fit and adjust as needs change rather than sticking to a single plan.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules. Video allows fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier with lower bandwidth, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family life while using approaches that focus on skills, values, and relationship patterns.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English