About Jana
Jana Grooms helps people navigate a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem struggles, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, career questions, bipolar symptoms, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her practice also addresses areas such as attachment issues, codependency, body image, domestic violence, gender dysphoria, abandonment and adoption matters, family of origin dynamics, and compassion fatigue.
Jana brings 22 years of clinical experience to her work and holds credentials as an LCPC and an LMHC, licensed in Florida and Illinois with licence numbers IL LCPC 180.006514 and FL LMHC MH17506. Her therapeutic manner is warm, steady, and nonjudgmental, creating space for clients to explore difficult feelings without pressure.
She draws on several evidence-informed methods including attachment-based approaches, client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and existential therapy to tailor care to each person’s needs. Sessions often combine practical coping skills with deeper exploration of patterns rooted in relationships and life meaning.
Jana emphasizes collaboration, meeting clients where they are and pacing work to match comfort and goals.
Approaches That Guide Online Work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relational patterns influence current emotional responses and interpersonal expectations, helping clients explore how attachment styles affect trust, intimacy, and sense of safety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for mood instability and strong emotional reactivity.Choosing the right approach is collaborative and often evolves during therapy. Jana will work with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences, combining techniques from different models when that better fits the person’s concerns and pace of change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access care from different settings. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment, CBT, and DBT techniques to work effectively through remote formats while tailoring sessions to each client’s comfort and goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English