About Janna
Janna Means is a licensed professional counselor who helps people working through grief and major life changes. She speaks plainly, listens closely, and guides clients to take steady steps toward feeling more able to handle loss and transition. She brings 22 years of counseling experience to her work in Mississippi and uses practical methods to address pain from bereavement and adjustment.
Sessions focus on concrete coping skills, thought patterns that get in the way, and small goals clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people affected by autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and intellectual disability. That experience helps her adapt how she explains ideas and plans actions so they fit each person's situation. Janna uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.
She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking, test new ways of responding, and build routines that reduce overwhelm. Her style is steady and practical. She encourages people to take one step at a time and to draw on strengths they already have.
The aim is to make coping feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
How CBT and online sessions work together
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps by breaking problems into smaller parts: thoughts, feelings, and actions. Janna uses this approach to help people notice thinking patterns that increase distress and to test new, more helpful responses for grief and life changes.She focuses on straightforward skills you can practice between sessions, such as tracking moods, testing unhelpful beliefs, and building small routines to reduce overwhelm. These steps are practical and are chosen with the client's goals in mind rather than as one-size-fits-all solutions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide what methods suit their situation, goals, and comfort level. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as needed so progress feels realistic.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect that fit different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, shorter updates, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English