About Janel
Janel Adams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky who focuses on helping people untangle long-held patterns and feel more like themselves. She frames therapy as a place where clients can stop pretending and start being honest about what hurts. Janel listens closely and offers steady guidance as people sort through hard questions about worth, belonging, and purpose.
Janel combines somatic ideas with evidence-based talk therapies to address stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Background and approach
She pays attention to both body sensations and thoughts so clients can notice how feelings show up in daily life. Sessions often mix gentle tracking of physical responses with exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people clarify values and build practical skills for managing symptoms.
EMDR and mindfulness practices are options when trauma memories or intense distress need focused attention. The goal is steady change, one small step at a time. People often come for help with low self-worth, people-pleasing, codependency, and relationship stress.
Janel supports work on anger, grief, career pressure, and questions about identity and life purpose. She also addresses issues like addiction, domestic violence effects, and family conflict in individual sessions. Janel has five years of clinical experience as an LCSW.
She offers sessions in English and works with clients from Kentucky via online formats. To begin, clients follow a short matching process that helps pair them with appropriate scheduling options.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches fit online
Somatic work pays attention to body sensations and movement to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in their bodies. It can be useful for people who feel stuck in tightness, shutdown, or chronic tension and want ways to regulate bodily responses.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed actions toward those values, even when feelings are difficult. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and building practical skills to change them. Both approaches can address anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying somatic practices alongside ACT or CBT and adjusting based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. It lets people connect from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and continue work between meetings. For many, this variety makes it easier to use therapeutic tools consistently and progress toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English