About Janell
Janell Dickerson uses clear, practical approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and big life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW and brings four years of professional experience to her practice in Florida. Janell aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on real problems.
She draws on therapies like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. In sessions she helps people notice what matters to them, spot unhelpful thoughts, and build everyday skills for managing intense feelings.
Background and approach
The work often includes small steps to test new habits and ways of coping. Janell believes the person in the room knows their story best. She supports clients in naming strengths and deciding what change looks like for them.
Sessions are collaborative, practical, and paced to the person’s needs. Her background includes work with a range of concerns beyond mood and grief, such as addiction, LGBT issues, bipolar disorder, communication difficulties, and challenges tied to illness and end-of-life care. She also has experience addressing issues like isolation, guilt and shame, and life purpose.
People who choose Janell usually want clear tools and steady support as they face change. She focuses on small, manageable steps and on building skills that can be used between sessions. Her style is practical, compassionate, and goal-oriented.
Evidence-informed approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify personal values and take small committed actions. It focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and moving toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skill-based work on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for intense emotions or relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals and daily life. That choice is adjusted over time based on what feels helpful and what the person wants to accomplish.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are helpful for brief check-ins or skill practice between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to use skills in real-life moments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English