About Jean
Jean Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, mood concerns, and relationship difficulties. She works with clients who are coping with grief, trauma, sleep problems, low self-esteem, ADHD, and life changes. Jean writes clear, practical steps people can try between sessions and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Jean takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach in session. She listens without judgment and then suggests small, doable tasks to try at home.
Background and approach
Tasks might include short exercises, readings, or thought-recording prompts designed to shift everyday patterns. This keeps therapy focused on real progress, not just talk. Her background blends counseling with previous work as an occupational therapist.
That experience informs how she ties emotional work to everyday activities and routines. Jean draws on this when people feel stuck because of chronic illness, caregiving demands, or role changes. Across two decades of practice she has worked with people facing substance use, bipolar symptoms, anger, and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports those dealing with aging concerns, chronic pain, and the stress of caregiving. Jean pays attention to the practical side of recovery, such as sleep, daily structure, and coping skills. Sessions aim to balance support and action.
Conversations focus on what matters to the client now and what small steps could help. Jean believes steady, manageable changes add up and that therapy should feel useful from the first few meetings.
How Jean’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship so clients feel heard and can make choices that fit their lives. It helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, and making big decisions by centering what matters to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. It uses clear homework and short exercises to produce small changes between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and interrupt automatic reactions, which can be useful for anger, anxiety, and managing cravings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jean treats this as a team effort and will discuss goals and preferences before suggesting methods. Together the client and therapist try strategies and adjust based on what feels helpful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing on their schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Jean help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What credential and region is Jean associated with?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
How do I begin therapy with Jean?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English