About Janna
Janna Fennell greets readers with direct, compassionate language and an emphasis on practical change. She encourages people who are ready to do the work to face old patterns and stop self-sabotage. Her style is honest and straightforward, while also offering steady support during difficult moments.
Janna uses clear tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other evidence-informed strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Sessions are collaborative - she asks questions, offers feedback, and gives exercises to practice between meetings.
Background and approach
She expects consistent attendance and active effort from clients so progress can stick. With ten years of clinical experience, Janna holds licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC). Her background includes school-based work with PreK-12 students and practice with teens and young adults in personal and online settings.
She draws on a mind-body approach that includes mindfulness, breathwork, and progressive muscle relaxation. Janna supports people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, sleep problems, relationship and family concerns, addiction, and life transitions. She also addresses attachment issues, codependency, body image, caregiver stress, and related concerns.
She frames difficult thoughts and behaviors as once-useful protections that can be changed when they no longer serve a person. Her sessions mix practical skill-building and deeper reflection. Clients who want clear feedback and actionable tools may find her direct yet empathetic approach helpful.
Janna aims to empower people to use new skills long after therapy ends.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It often focuses on building willingness to experience difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches skills to identify and change thought patterns that lead to distress and to try new behaviors that produce different results. These methods suit anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and many day-to-day patterns that cause pain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. From there she will suggest techniques and check in regularly to adjust the plan so it fits the person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet and practice skills between sessions. Video calls let people use face-to-face connection for deeper work, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share quick updates, ask questions between sessions, or record thoughts as they arise. These options help therapy fit into a busy life and support steady progress.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How long has she been practicing?
What licenses and where is she based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are offered?
How does cost and billing work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Virginia
- Languages
- English