About Janel
Janel "Elle" Zimmerman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar mood changes, trauma and major life transitions. She practices from Florida and brings 14 years of experience to each session. Her manner is calm and straightforward, aimed at steadying someone who feels overwhelmed by day-to-day pressures.
Elle focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve learning new coping skills, noticing unhelpful thinking, and testing different ways of handling hard moments. Her work covers a wide range of concerns beyond core mood issues. She helps people manage attachment and abandonment worries, body image and communication problems, chronic illness and caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and conditions like autism spectrum traits and avoidant personality patterns.
Therapeutically she draws on several evidence-based approaches and adapts them to each person. That can mean using behavior-focused techniques to shift thinking, or exploring relationship patterns that keep someone stuck. The goal is to build resilience and better day-to-day functioning rather than chasing quick fixes.
People who meet with Elle can expect a respectful, down-to-earth experience. She works with each person to create a plan that fits their life and pace. For many, the process is about regaining control and finding clearer next steps.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that reflect personal values and long-term goals. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life changes by focusing on what matters most in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete tools to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves straightforward exercises and strategies that can reduce anxiety and improve mood over weeks to months.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be helpful when intense moods or relationship conflicts interfere with daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that aim for practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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