About Jean
Jean Beatie is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, addictions, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She brings a long history in counseling to her work and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Jean has 35 years of experience across many settings.
Early in her career she worked on an inpatient psychiatric unit and at a shelter supporting women overcoming physical abuse and addiction.
Background and approach
She has provided individual outpatient care and currently works as an elementary school counselor. Her background also includes grief work, family and relationship conflict, complex trauma and abuse, codependency, and adult children of alcoholics. Her style is warm and supportive.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. She starts with where a person is, then helps set clear, realistic steps to address problems rather than offering quick fixes. Jean uses approaches that include client-centered therapy, mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy.
She pays attention to how cultural identities and life choices affect a person’s experience and tailors plans accordingly. People who work with Jean can expect concrete goals and practical tools to manage symptoms and cope with life changes. She emphasizes steady progress and believes meaningful change often takes time.
Jean holds licenses in Missouri and Kansas - LPC is the Missouri credential and LCPC is the Kansas credential - and she conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. Online sessions let Jean follow the client's lead, ask questions, and help clarify priorities in real time. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage anxiety, stress, and strong emotions, and those exercises can be practiced together during video or phone sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jean treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will help figure out what fits each person's needs, goals, and preferences. She may draw on mindfulness, motivational interviewing, or solution-focused techniques depending on what seems most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and practice of skills, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief updates, check-ins, and prompts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English