About Jean
Jean Kraljev is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people facing addiction, depression, self-esteem struggles, and major life transitions. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while people find practical steps forward. Her style is respectful and direct, aimed at helping clients build confidence and motivation.
With 25 years of experience, Jean draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and improve coping skills. She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based strategies to help manage difficult moods and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics that affect daily life. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs. Jean adapts conversations and plans so goals feel realistic and doable.
She focuses on skills people can practice between meetings to make steady progress. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Florida with adults facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma, relationship problems, career stress, and end-of-life issues. Jean brings patience to complex situations like bipolar disorder, compulsive behaviors, and grief.
She offers flexible session formats including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. If you want guidance on next steps, Jean helps people clarify what's most important and maps out a step-by-step plan to move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems because it emphasizes small steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It often includes hands-on exercises and short homework tasks that fit into daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and trust, and it helps people rework those patterns to feel safer in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jean collaborates with each person to figure out which methods match their goals and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and adjusts methods as progress is made, keeping treatment practical and focused on what the person wants to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins and brief skill practice between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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