Dr. Jean Frank
Compassionate, practical mental health care
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jean
Dr. Jean Frank offers straightforward, practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, parenting concerns, and related life changes. She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience and speaks English and Portuguese.
Her manner is calm and direct, aimed at helping people find workable steps as they cope with difficult situations. In sessions she uses a mix of methods rather than one fixed protocol.
Background and approach
That means she might teach concrete skills for handling strong emotions or help a person notice and change unhelpful thoughts. She also draws on trauma-informed tools when needed and works with attention and mood challenges like ADHD and bipolar concerns. Her background includes practice in many settings, such as independent practice, corrections, schools, hospitals, and mental health centers.
That variety informs how she tailors strategies to day-to-day life and unexpected challenges. She emphasizes building coping tools, improving communication, and finding realistic ways to resolve conflicts. Dr.
Frank describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people weigh options and decide what to try next rather than imposing a single solution. Her training and ongoing coursework keep her up to date with trauma care and telemental health methods.
Clients should expect clear steps in sessions, practical exercises between meetings, and an emphasis on moving toward stated goals. Her Florida LMHC credential is FL LMHC MH10305, and she works with adults in English and Portuguese.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions you can take to move toward what matters, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical tools to change thinking patterns and develop coping skills for stress, mood challenges, and anxiety.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR is a trauma-focused method that can reduce the intensity of distressing memories. It is used when past events are keeping someone stuck in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Frank will discuss goals, preferences, and symptoms to choose which tools to try first. She adapts methods over time based on what helps and what feels comfortable for the client.
Online therapy with her can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings. The variety of formats also allows someone to pick what best supports their comfort and consistency in care.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point