Jana Grooms
Compassionate, steady therapy for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jana
Jana Grooms is a licensed therapist who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem, depression, and parenting concerns. She brings 22 years of experience to sessions and aims to make therapy a calm, steady place where people can speak honestly. Jana holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online in Florida. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental.
Background and approach
Jana listens first, then helps people find practical steps to feel less overwhelmed. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based work to address patterns that keep problems repeating. Mindfulness and elements of dialectical behavior therapy can be added when emotional regulation and coping skills are needed.
Jana often helps clients who struggle with relationships, intimacy-related issues, body image, parenting stress, and life transitions. She also addresses concerns such as grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and gender dysphoria among other focus areas. Her approach aims to reduce distress and build sustainable habits rather than quick fixes.
Therapy sessions may include talking through recent events, practicing new ways to respond, and building small routines that support change. Jana emphasizes collaboration - goals and pacing are chosen together. Practical tools and real-life strategies are a consistent part of the work.
To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Jana’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online work using this approach pays attention to how people connect, respond to closeness, and repeat old ways of relating, which can help with relationship and intimacy concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying new behaviors between sessions, and tracking what changes work in daily life. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and current needs. Pace and techniques are adjusted over time based on what proves most helpful.
Online sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. These formats let clients practice skills between meetings and maintain continuity of care when life gets hectic. Licensed professionals can use a mix of formats to fit a client's routine and make consistent progress.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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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
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