Jeanne Peel, LMFT

Jeanne Peel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 22 years of clinical experience supporting children, teens, adults, couples, and families across community mental health, residential treatment, private practice, and clinical assessment settings. She has provided online therapy, worked in an insurance company call center conducting mental health assessments, and draws on a broad background to tailor care to each person's situation.

Jeanne works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger management, parenting and family difficulties, relationship and communication problems, low self-esteem, work-life balance, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues. She has particular experience with blended family dynamics, codependency, control issues, divorce and separation, family of origin challenges, and needs common to veterans and military families. Her military service and 15 years as a military spouse inform her sensitivity to military culture and related stressors.

Her style is warm, interactive, and collaborative, rooted in a person-centered outlook that respects each client as the expert on their life. Jeanne uses an eclectic approach, integrating elements of solution-focused work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, existential thinking, psychodynamic insight, and mindfulness practices to find what fits best for each person. She values rapport and client engagement and helps clients challenge self-limiting beliefs while developing practical skills for change.

Outside of her clinical work Jeanne is a veteran, a parent of five adult children and seven grandchildren, and cared for her father with Alzheimer’s until his passing in October 2021. She emphasizes self-care in her own life through running, walking, biking, kayaking, yoga, meditation, and nutrition, and brings that lived perspective to her therapeutic relationships.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Jeanne Peel

Jeanne combines client-centered work with practical skills so therapy focuses on the person and their goals. Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person's experience from their perspective and creating a supportive, respectful environment that helps people explore values, choices, and relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT offers concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship difficulties by teaching strategies to challenge negative thinking and build new coping skills.

Mindfulness therapy introduces present-moment awareness and stress-reduction practices to help people respond more skillfully to emotional pain, trauma reminders, and everyday pressures. These practices can support emotional regulation and improve attention and self-compassion.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Jeanne collaborates with each client to determine which methods align with their needs, goals, and preferences. She and the client work together to adapt techniques over time so therapy remains relevant and effective.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility that can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, manage ongoing commitments, and maintain continuity of care across locations. For many people, remote sessions make it simpler to access licensed professionals and therapists who can support them through life transitions and emotional challenges.