About Jane
Jane Rhea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eleven years of experience. She focuses on practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and career or life transitions. Jane writes and talks plainly, and aims to make sessions feel direct and useful for everyday challenges.
Jane brings a client-centered style to sessions. She listens for each person’s priorities and works with them to set short-term goals.
Background and approach
That can mean focusing on coping skills for anxiety, building routines to manage attention differences, or finding steps toward meaningful work. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing show up in her practice. Mindfulness helps people notice how thoughts and sensations affect behavior.
Motivational interviewing supports finding personal reasons and motivation to change habits or try new approaches. She also uses narrative and solution-focused methods. Narrative work helps someone reframe the stories they tell about themselves.
Solution-focused tools zero in on small, doable changes that make life feel better fast. Jane has a background in disability studies and social work and brings that perspective into sessions. She understands structural barriers and the ways identities can shape stress and access to resources.
Her approach emphasizes strengths and practical steps rather than labels. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Jane aims to help people leave with at least one concrete action to try between meetings.
She accepts English-speaking clients and works with people across Illinois and beyond.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to each person. The therapist helps clients name their priorities and co-create goals so sessions stay relevant to daily life and career concerns.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness skills to notice thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without judgment. This can reduce reactivity and help with anxiety, stress, chronic pain, and attention differences by building short, repeatable practices.
Motivational interviewing supports finding personal reasons to change and overcoming resistance. It’s useful when someone wants to try new routines, manage attention or mood symptoms, or make career-related moves by strengthening internal motivation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help select methods that match a client’s needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, and quick problem-solving between longer meetings.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines while using methods that focus on concrete steps and skill building.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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