About Juanita
Dr. Juanita McGowan is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of experience. She blends practical strategies with compassionate conversation to help people feel steadier in daily life.
Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and ADHD concerns. She favors approaches that teach skills people can use right away. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase focus.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want change but feel stuck. Her style is warm and focused. She encourages clients to build on strengths and personal resources.
Sessions can include life coaching elements when clients want practical steps toward goals. Dr. McGowan draws on experience in counseling, teaching, and administration.
She has worked across multicultural settings and attends to cultural background in sessions. She also integrates faith into therapy when a client wants that included. She earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas and a PhD from Kansas State University in Adult and Continuing Education.
Her license is KS LSCSW. She sees people across a wide range of life stages and concerns, and she accepts clients in English from Kansas and beyond.
Practical approaches you can use online
Dr. McGowan commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve focus. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and increase calm.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. This approach focuses on a person's own reasons for change and helps build motivation step by step.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling easier for busy days. Video sessions allow full conversation and visual cues; phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing accountability between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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