About Janel
Janel Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed, unworthy, or disconnected from themselves. She names low self-worth, people-pleasing, and codependency as common struggles she addresses. Janel aims to offer a steady presence and practical guidance while clients work through painful patterns and life transitions.
Her approach is direct and compassionate. She helps clients look at where protective habits began and how those habits show up now.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through emotions, learning new ways to cope, and practicing skills that fit everyday life. The tone is supportive rather than clinical, so people can speak openly without feeling judged. With five years of experience as an LCSW in Kentucky, she has worked with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship concerns.
Janel also supports people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, and the impact of substance use on wellbeing. She pays attention to practical issues like money, career stress, and life purpose as part of recovery. Her work uses several therapeutic approaches that focus on thoughts, behavior, and present-moment awareness.
She incorporates tools to manage strong emotions, improve communication, and repair attachment wounds. The goal is to help people build a life that reflects their values and strengths. People who want straightforward help with self-esteem, coping skills, or making big life changes may find her style a good fit.
Janel offers therapy that balances empathy with clear, achievable steps toward feeling more like oneself.
How Janel’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It often helps with low self-worth, avoidance, and getting stuck during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that can reduce the intensity of painful memories and their emotional hold.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose methods and adjust them as needed so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text messaging provide short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English