About Jeanne
Jeanne Stearns is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, relationship challenges, trauma, and mood concerns. She brings two decades of experience and a steady, respectful presence to conversations about difficult moments. Jeanne emphasizes clients' strengths and supports practical steps toward change.
She frames therapy around each person's story and choices. Sessions focus on what matters now and what small actions can make life easier.
Background and approach
Jeanne listens first, then helps people name goals and try doable strategies. Her approach draws from client-centered work that prioritizes the person’s perspective, cognitive behavioral techniques that look at thoughts and behaviors, and solution-focused methods to build concrete plans. Motivational interviewing is used to strengthen commitment to change when motivation feels shaky.
Jeanne has worked across a range of issues including grief, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career transitions, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with addictions and process behaviors such as problematic gambling or pornography use. Therapy with Jeanne aims to be practical and collaborative.
She helps people clarify priorities, experiment with new habits, and track progress. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on making daily life more manageable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jeanne often uses client-centered work to prioritize each person’s perspective. This approach means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients make decisions based on their own values and strengths. It is useful for people who need validation and clearer self-direction.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. That method helps people test unhelpful thinking patterns and try new, practical behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or handle ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Jeanne collaborates with each client to pick methods that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts strategies over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are practical for quick updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps someone process thoughts more clearly. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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