Jean Snyder
Calm guidance for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jean
Jean Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and grief. She is based in Michigan and brings 20 years of counseling experience to the work. Jean creates a straightforward, practical space where people can talk about what’s not working and try new ways to cope.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Jean treats each person as the expert in their own life and partners with them to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
She often suggests short exercises or simple assignments to try between sessions to build new habits and track progress. Jean blends talking and action. Conversations are used to uncover patterns and meanings.
Then she adds practical steps to test new behaviors and thinking. This mix helps with mood, relationship strain, stress management, and substance concerns. Her training as a Licensed Professional Counselor guides the clinical work, and her long experience means she has helped people through many kinds of life transitions.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and client-centered care based on the person’s needs. Jean recognizes it can feel hard to reach out. She aims to make the first steps as clear and manageable as possible.
If someone is ready to explore changes, she focuses on small, doable shifts that lead to real relief over time.
How online approaches meet real life needs
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist provides a non-judgmental space and follows the person’s lead to identify goals and values. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support and wants to feel heard.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and build different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with change.
Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity. These techniques can be useful for stress, anger, and improving focus in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and based on what helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep continuity during life transitions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to combine conversation, short exercises, and written prompts so progress continues between live conversations.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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