Dr. Jeanne Assinthe, LMSW, LCSW, CSW
Compassionate culturally rooted trauma-informed care
About Jeanne
Dr. Jeanne Assinthe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of practice. She uses a humane, person-focused approach that centers culture, identity, and lived experience.
People come to her for help with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and trauma-related worries. She aims to look beyond symptoms to understand what shaped them. That includes the effects of systemic oppression, intergenerational pain, and community history.
Her work draws on somatic ideas alongside therapies that focus on values, thought patterns, and attachment needs.
Background and approach
Jeanne founded Amitie Wellness, Inc., where she has developed programs that blend cultural healing, community practices, and clinical work. She also provides supervision and training for other clinicians and has published on topics related to culturally responsive care. Her background includes organizational partnership and program development in community and health settings.
In therapy she emphasizes collaboration and empowerment. Sessions often involve noticing how the body holds stress, naming patterns, and choosing small practical steps to change daily life. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based approaches, cognitive techniques, and client-centered ways of working.
She also designs community-focused interventions such as cultural healing circles and programs that support parents and caregivers. Her perspective is shaped by a commitment to making mental health care more accessible and more attuned to culture and history.
How her approaches translate to online work
Jeanne blends Somatic-informed practice with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based ideas. Somatic work invites attention to bodily sensations and movement to notice how stress shows up in the body; it can help with trauma responses, anxiety, and chronic tension. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when thoughts and feelings are difficult, which is useful for worry, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people develop safer, more connected ways of relating when past hurts affect current bonds.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jeanne collaborates with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing body-focused practices, values work, and relationship-focused strategies across sessions so treatment matches the person rather than a single model.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, with fewer travel burdens and simpler scheduling around work or caregiving. Some people prefer shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or audio-only sessions when bandwidth is limited; please confirm the current session options before booking. The therapist will discuss format and pacing so sessions work practically for daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole