About Jean
Jean Hannigan is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression.
Background and approach
With 25 years in the mental health field, she combines experience from school systems, social services, Early Intervention work with the State of Illinois, and independent practice to tailor care around each person's concerns.
She also maintains additional focus on adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, cancer, communication problems, divorce and separation, family of origin and family problems, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life counseling, life purpose, narcissism, post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder, sexuality, and smoking or vaping cessation.
Hannigan favors client-centered, emotionally focused, mindfulness-based, narrative, and solution-focused approaches, using a collaborative, nonjudgmental stance to highlight strengths and build practical plans. During early sessions she explores the issues that brought someone to therapy and works with clients to develop goals and strategies that fit their lives.
Her training includes a master’s in clinical psychology and certificates in grief counseling and narcissistic abuse recovery, and she offers services in English while accepting international clients.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Flexibility
Jean uses client-centered therapy to prioritize each person's perspective, fostering acceptance and collaboration while helping clients clarify goals and discover their own solutions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used to explore patterns in emotional responses and relationships, which can be helpful when addressing grief, attachment concerns, or significant relational stress. Mindfulness Therapy introduces present-moment awareness and grounding skills to reduce anxiety and improve emotional regulation in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process; Jean works together with clients to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative decision-making helps tailor sessions so interventions feel relevant and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy with Jean is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexible options for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats allow consistent access to licensed professionals without requiring travel, making it easier to maintain regular sessions and apply new skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English