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Janna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has 19 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, families, and chronically mentally ill individuals. She has worked in group homes, home health care settings, VA hospitals, and psychiatric hospitals. For the last 16 years she has worked in Psychiatric Services at Billings Clinic. She has provided individual, group, and family therapy to all ages. She has extensive experience in crisis intervention, mental illness in adults and children, and suicide prevention.

Janna received her undergraduate degree in Social Work from Carroll College and her Master’s in Social Work from Boston College. Janna is currently working with individual’s age 7 through 65. Roughly half of her clients are children/teens with anxiety disorders. She also enjoys working with individuals with depression, adjustment disorders, PTSD, anger management issues, and couples counseling.

“I meet with the client and try and get a good sense of where they are and what they are looking for. It is important to me to relate to people on a human level. It is also vital that the client “clicks” with me and feels that they can work with me. Finding a therapist is like finding a pair of shoes that fits just right. You may have to try several on to find that perfect fit. I like to give the client the power to hire me. I ask them at the end of every session if they want to come back. If for some reason we are not connecting, I am more than willing to refer them to another provider.”

Janna works from a strength based model. “Everyone has strengths, we just need to identify those and make them work for the client.” Janna uses a variety of treatment modalities, including; Cognitive Behavioral, Client Centered Therapy, Family Systems, and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy.