About Jean
Jean Kraljev is a licensed professional counselor who aims to help people facing addiction, low self-esteem, depression, and career stress. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are. Her approach centres on respect, sensitivity, and steady support as people take the first steps toward change.
With 25 years of experience and credentials as an LPC and LCMHC, she adapts sessions to each person's needs. Jean combines practical skills with empathetic listening to build plans that feel realistic and manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, useful steps rather than overwhelming goals. Jean uses several proven methods to guide conversations and decisions. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and move toward them.
Attachment-based work and client-centered care shape how she listens and responds in the moment. People come to Jean for help with a wide range of concerns beyond mood and addiction. She supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief and end-of-life issues, gender dysphoria, hoarding, isolation, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses practical problems like communication breakdowns, impulsivity, and navigating divorce or separation. Sessions are available through multiple online formats that fit different schedules and needs. Jean helps clients set clear goals, practice new skills between visits, and check progress over time.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client leads and the therapist offers guidance.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Jean often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, often useful for depression, anxiety, and behaviors tied to addiction.She also works with acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them despite difficult feelings. ACT can help with long-standing avoidance, motivation issues, and coping with chronic distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jean collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time if something isn’t working well for the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different days and routines. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat work well for quick check-ins or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping progress steady.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English