About Jana
Jana Gumley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with self-esteem, eating and body-image concerns, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. Jana combines a warm, down-to-earth style with clear, practical steps to help people feel steadier in daily life.
Her sessions are straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person. She listens with curiosity and encourages small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Treatment often includes tools from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness practices, and attachment-focused ideas to improve relationships and emotional regulation. Jana has four years of clinical experience and has worked with people facing early life trauma, sexual trauma, substance use issues, and major life adjustments.
She is familiar with grief, suicidal thinking, self-harm histories, and the complicated effects of chronic illness and co-occurring conditions. People meet her and find a calm, accepting presence that helps them talk through difficult memories and current struggles. She adapts the approach to the person rather than using a single method for everyone.
Sessions aim to build coping skills, reduce distressing symptoms, and clarify the next steps in life. Jana practices from Alaska as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her work is practical, compassionate, and tailored to each person’s goals.
She recognizes the courage it takes to seek help and offers steady support through the process.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in connection and practice new ways of relating to others and themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behaviors. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, ask about past helpful strategies, and together decide which methods to try first. Plans can change as progress is made and as new concerns surface, so the work stays responsive to each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share updates between sessions and to get brief support without scheduling a full call. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English