Jeanie Shade, LCSW

Jeanie Shade is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical skills and steady listening to support changes people want to make. Her style is grounded and personable, aimed at helping someone feel understood and learn tools they can use right away.

She draws on eight years of licensed practice, much of it in hospital settings working with adults and adolescents with serious mental health challenges. That background gave her experience listening to hard stories and noticing how simple skills and steady attention can make a difference. For two years she has led a community group at a local library where she teaches mental health wellness skills and guides people as they practice what they learn.

In sessions she pays attention to what a person wants to learn or resolve. She uses guidance, insight, and teaching to build skills such as mindfulness, grounding, and emotional awareness. She talks about the difference between surviving and thriving skills and helps people examine beliefs that shape their life story.

Her work combines client-centered therapy, solution-focused therapy, and mindfulness therapy to mix practical behavior-focused tools with deeper reflection. That mix is intended to help people manage symptoms of depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar-related challenges, and life transitions.

Jeanie invites people to bring their goals and try different tools together. She aims to be present, listen closely, and support each person in finding the changes that matter to them.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping you set the agenda. The therapist follows what matters most to you and offers empathy, reflection, and guidance to support your goals. This style helps when you need someone to witness your story and help you decide next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses short, practical exercises and skill practice to shift unhelpful thinking and ease symptoms like anxiety and low mood. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, and relationship patterns.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with you to pick methods that match your goals, preferences, and needs. That may mean trying skills-focused work one week and deeper reflection the next to see what helps most.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing a quicker check-in during a break. Because the exact session formats were not specified in the original profile, confirm current options before booking so you know whether phone, video, or messaging sessions are available. Discuss scheduling needs and the kinds of exercises you want to do so sessions fit into everyday routines.