Janet Ferrell, LPC

Janet Ferrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 37 years in mental health. She has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings and helped people facing addiction, domestic violence, and other mental health challenges. She has typically worked with adolescents and adults and does not work with small children.

Her background includes long-term clinical work with people managing mood conditions, anxiety, trauma, and substance use. She uses practical skills drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical behavior methods. Mindfulness and guided imagery are tools she often brings into sessions.

Janet aims to make therapy personal. She avoids one-size-fits-all plans and builds goals that fit each person's situation. In sessions she focuses on concrete coping skills, clearer thinking patterns, and ways to reduce crisis moments so daily life can feel more manageable.

People contact her for help with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, anger, sleep problems, chronic health or pain challenges, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and body-image concerns.

Communication in sessions is calm and direct. Janet works to create a space where someone can talk through difficult feelings and practice new skills. If a parent or adult is looking for steady support through a hard period, she helps set small, attainable steps forward.

How these approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It involves the therapist reflecting back concerns, asking clarifying questions, and helping someone set their own goals. This approach is helpful when someone needs a steady, understanding space to sort feelings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Sessions often include practicing small exercises between meetings to test new ways of thinking and acting, which works well when managing anxiety, depression, or sleeping problems.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal skills. It gives concrete tools for handling intense emotions and reducing repeated crises or self-destructive patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and daily needs to decide which methods to use. That decision is collaborative and can shift over time as goals change.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time for people juggling health appointments or caregiving. Talk with the therapist about what will best match scheduling, comfort with video, and goals for therapy.