About Jean
Jean Hair is a licensed clinical social worker in Maine with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, practical support. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at small steps that fit daily life.
She helps with stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem. She also supports people facing life changes, caregiver strain, addiction concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Jean pays attention to relationship and family issues, communication problems, and struggles with guilt or isolation. In sessions she creates a welcoming space for people to talk without judgment. She uses talk therapy, moments of guided reflection, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns.
Art as self-expression and working with dreams are options she offers for people who prefer nonverbal work. Jean draws on several approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive behavioral techniques help with changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical skills teach steadying practices for strong emotions. EMDR is included for those processing traumatic memories when that fits the person's goals. She invites people to bring their spiritual beliefs into the work if that feels important.
The focus is on finding each person's own process toward more embodied, meaningful living. Jean aims to support and empower people as they try new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
How Jean’s approaches translate to online therapy
Jean uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s needs, listening closely and adapting the pace of work to what feels right. That approach supports people who need a calm, accepting space to sort through thoughts and emotions.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to break down unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, and stress because it emphasizes concrete skills and small experiments between sessions. Jean incorporates dialectical behavior therapy or DBT skills to help manage intense emotions and build better coping strategies for distressing moments.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Jean will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and past experience to decide which methods to use. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan as progress or new needs emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text work for quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping work focused on concrete changes and personal growth.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English