About Jean
Jean Bennett is a New York licensed mental health counselor. She brings eight years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her manner is relaxed and direct, which can help someone feel more at ease early in therapy.
She focuses on creating an open space where clients can speak freely about thoughts and feelings. Sessions are conversational and practical rather than technical. Jean aims to help people identify options and try steps that fit their life.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to stress, anger, addiction, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem. She also supports people facing career strain, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, and experiences of prejudice or sexual assault. Jean pays attention to how past family experiences affect present patterns.
Jean uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. That can include somatic awareness to notice how the body holds tension, client-centered listening to follow what matters most, and cognitive techniques to test unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused ideas also inform her sessions when useful.
If someone prefers to move at a steady, collaborative pace, Jean works to build a plan together. She helps set small goals and checks progress while adjusting the approach. The aim is practical change that fits daily life, led by the client’s priorities and values.
How Jean's Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, such as tightness, breath patterns, or restlessness; noticing these sensations can help people manage stress and trauma symptoms. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities, creating a space where the person sets the pace and topics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and tests small experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, or panic.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Jean collaborates with each person to decide which approaches feel most helpful. Goals, preferences, and daily life factors guide adjustments so work remains practical and meaningful.
Online sessions offer a range of ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn't possible, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue progress between meetings with brief messages or check-ins.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English