About Janet
Janet Ferrell is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 37 years working in mental health. She practices from Tennessee and offers therapy in English. Janet has long experience in inpatient and outpatient settings and has helped people facing addiction, trauma, mood concerns, and stress.
Her approach centers on the individual needs of each person. She uses Somatic methods alongside Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Sessions focus on practical skills, body awareness, and clearer thinking to manage strong emotions and difficult situations.
Background and approach
Janet has extensive experience with addiction and domestic violence histories, and with people managing bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also supports those dealing with sleep problems, anger, relationship strain, parenting stress, and transitions in life. Additional focus areas listed include abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and pain, and caregiving stress.
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative. She aims to make therapy feel tailored, not one-size-fits-all, and she prioritizes helping people build skills they can use between sessions. Mindfulness and guided imagery are tools she commonly uses alongside talk-based work.
Janet works with adolescents and adults rather than small children. People meet her for both short-term coping strategies and longer-term work to change patterns that cause pain or keep them stuck.
Practical approaches for online somatic and skills work
Janet uses Somatic approaches to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. This can involve simple breathing, movement, and grounding practices to reduce overwhelm and increase body awareness during distress. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around each persons needs and goals. This helps create space to talk through painful experiences and decide what matters most to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her toolkit for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT offers practical exercises that people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage symptoms. Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasnt helped before, then adapt methods as needed. This collaborative planning helps ensure sessions feel relevant and useful. Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for guided body awareness and skill coaching. Phone sessions work when video isnt possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, use short coping prompts, and practice skills between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- 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
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English