About Jataun
Jataun Rollins is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with eleven years in independent practice. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, career challenges, and major life changes. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making steps feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
She began offering counseling work in faith-based settings before opening a independent practice in 2012. Over time she built experience helping people facing issues such as adoption and foster care concerns, blended family tensions, divorce and separation, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
She also supports people wrestling with loneliness, guilt, forgiveness, money worries, and questions about life purpose. Her approach draws on trauma-focused therapy alongside practical tools clients can use between sessions. Typical tools include breathing techniques, mindfulness exercises, journaling, and short homework tasks that help bring new patterns into daily life.
Sessions emphasize collaboration so clients can shape what feels most useful. Jataun treats each person as the expert on their life and offers guidance to help them move toward clearer choices and less overwhelm. She aims to create a plan that fits daily routines and real-world demands, not one that adds more pressure.
She works in English and accepts international clients while practicing in Illinois. People interested in starting can expect straightforward steps for connection and planning a first session.
Trauma-informed methods and online therapy options
Trauma-focused therapy centers on understanding how past hurt affects current feelings and reactions. It often includes grounding and breathing exercises, gentle tracking of triggers, and building coping skills to reduce strong emotional reactions. This approach can help with issues like unresolved loss, intrusive memories, or when past events keep getting in the way of daily life.Alongside trauma-focused work, practical tools such as mindfulness, journaling, and short homework tasks are used to strengthen new habits between sessions. These strategies help people apply what they learn in real situations, like managing stress at work or navigating family conversations. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to decide which approach matches their goals and comfort level.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video sessions let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats are useful for quick check-ins or when logging thoughts between meetings. These options aim to make it easier to get consistent support while balancing everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English