About Jana
Jana Gumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Alaska who helps people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with grief, eating and body image concerns, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Jana approaches work with warmth and straightforward care.
She offers a calm, down-to-earth style that aims to make people feel safe enough to speak honestly. Sessions focus on practical tools people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Jana listens closely and adjusts methods to fit each person's goals and pace. Her background includes four years of clinical experience. She has worked with a wide range of concerns such as early life trauma, sexual trauma, substance use issues, and life transitions.
That experience informs how she shapes treatment plans. Jana uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. She commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, attachment-focused work, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate.
These methods are applied to help with things like phobias, coping after loss, and chronic stress. Therapy sessions are collaborative. Jana aims to help people set clear goals, try strategies in-session, and track progress over time.
She respects individual differences and works at a pace that feels manageable. People who prefer remote options can work with her through video, phone, chat, or messaging. She encourages anyone ready to explore change to take the first step toward support.
Therapeutic approaches applied in online sessions
Jana often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day challenges because it focuses on clear strategies and homework between meetings.She also draws from attachment-based work, which looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach helps people understand triggers in relationships and build more supported ways of relating to others.
EMDR, when used, focuses on processing distressing memories through guided techniques to reduce their emotional intensity. This can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and persistent painful memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose and adjust methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans are revisited over time so techniques can be changed if they are not helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and share materials; phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break; live chat and text-based messaging enable shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English
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