Jana Grooms

Jana Grooms is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and related challenges. She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor and an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with more than 22 years of experience. Jana aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what feels heavy and start to feel steadier.

Her approach is practical and person-focused. Sessions often include cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness strategies, and work that looks at attachment patterns. Jana describes her style as warm and steady, and she offers straightforward tools you can use between sessions.

She also brings trauma-informed methods to work with painful memories and long-standing triggers. Her background includes help for people facing grief, relationship strain, identity questions, and change across life stages. Jana pays attention to how past relationships shape present feelings and behavior.

Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and short-term strategies alongside deeper exploration when needed. She balances problem-solving with time to process emotions, and she helps people build skills for handling intense feelings and overwhelming moments.

Jana works in Florida and communicates in English. If you want to begin, you follow the site process to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.

How Jana’s approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns that began in close relationships and looks at how those patterns affect current feelings and connections. This approach helps people understand why they react certain ways and build different, healthier responses. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and pace, allowing conversations to guide what’s explored while the therapist offers empathy and acceptance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches concrete skills for changing unhelpful patterns and improving daily functioning.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Jana will work with each person to identify goals and preferences, and adjust methods over time so therapy fits what is needed in the moment. That means trying skills-based work, slower processing, or a mix depending on progress and comfort.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel and allowing conversations from wherever is convenient. Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm the available options before booking. Practical advantages include shorter or more frequent check-ins when helpful, easier scheduling around work or caregiving, and using written exercises and mindfulness practices between meetings to reinforce progress.