Jane Fortune, LPC

Jane Fortune is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with 20 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through life transitions and emotional challenges. She began her career with licensure in Virginia and has held licensure in North Carolina as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), and she currently practices in South Carolina as an LPC. Jane blends professional training with practical life experience to offer grounded, compassionate care.

For the past 13 years she has maintained a private practice, and earlier work included in-office and online services for families, couples, and individuals. She has completed three levels of training in the Gottman Model, a research-informed approach for couples and marriage counseling, and integrates a range of therapeutic methods to meet each client where they are. Her clinical approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT). Jane works with concerns such as stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, sleep problems, addictions, parenting and family dynamics, and many related life challenges.

Her decades of professional practice are informed by a 40-plus-year marriage and the perspectives of being a mother of two and a grandmother of eight, which she describes as enriching her therapeutic work with real-world insight. Jane welcomes the opportunity to meet clients and support them as they navigate the journey of change and healing.

Therapeutic approaches for online care and relationships

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify their values and learn practical ways to act on what matters most, even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise - it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect present-day connections, making it valuable for relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and attachment difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and reshaping emotional responses within relationships to build stronger bonding and communication, which is often helpful for couples and partners facing conflict or disconnection.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Jane collaborates with each client to determine which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She and the client work together to adapt techniques so therapy feels relevant and useful for the issues at hand.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - allowing clients to access licensed professionals and therapists from varied locations and schedules. This range of options makes it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit therapy into a busy life, and engage in support in ways that feel most comfortable for the client.