About Juanita
Juanita Ross is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 19 years of professional experience in Montana. She combines a long background in behavior management with mental health work to help people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, anger, and struggles with self-esteem. Juanita emphasizes practical steps and steady support during hard moments.
She sees each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable changes that reduce daily strain.
Background and approach
Juanita also brings experience supporting people living with bipolar disorder and those coping with obsessive or compulsive behaviors. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She helps clients talk through what’s happening, practice new responses, and try different ways to manage intense feelings.
She pays attention to how work stress, past injuries, or traumatic events show up in everyday life. Juanita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. She aims to make therapy feel practical rather than abstract, with tools people can use between appointments.
The approach is collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs. People who want clear guidance, steady encouragement, and a focus on real-world strategies often find her approach helpful. She works by supporting goals, teaching skills, and adjusting plans as progress unfolds.
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Juanita uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching practical skills and reducing symptoms through structured work. One common approach emphasizes recognizing and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to lower anxiety and manage mood swings; it helps people test new ways of responding to fear and stress. Another approach centers on paced exposure to feared situations in small steps, which can reduce avoidance and lessen phobic reactions over time. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Juanita will work with each person to match methods to their goals, history, and daily life. She encourages trying techniques and reviewing what helps most, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging offer brief, flexible ways to stay connected between appointments. These formats increase accessibility and allow people to continue care from different locations while keeping treatment focused on real-world change.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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