Janette Gunn

Janette Gunn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Wisconsin with 24 years of experience. She approaches sessions with respect and compassion and focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety, stress, and feelings of isolation.

Janette began her career supporting people in a domestic violence shelter and later worked with teens in treatment foster care who survived severe trauma. Those early roles shaped her commitment to trauma-informed care and to listening carefully to each person's story.

Her work centers on tailoring conversation and plans to each person’s needs. She uses a mix of approaches to help people manage depression, grief, trauma, and low self-esteem. She also helps those struggling with social anxiety, life purpose questions, and loneliness.

In sessions she emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients set clear goals and practices simple, concrete skills between meetings. This can include ways to track thoughts, manage strong emotions, and build more satisfying social connections.

Janette aims to make therapy feel like a partnership. She focuses on small, steady steps toward feeling safer and more connected. Her background with trauma survivors informs how she balances safety, skill-building, and emotional processing.

How Janette's approaches fit into online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. It looks at how past bonds influence current trust, intimacy, and loneliness, and helps people notice and change relationship patterns.

Client-centered therapy centers on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what they hear, and helps the client find their own solutions to stress, anxiety, and life questions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with experiments and practice. It is often used for anxiety, social phobia, and depression because it teaches clear skills for coping with difficult moods and situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help identify which methods fit the client's goals, needs, and comfort level, and they will adjust the plan as progress is made. Decisions are made collaboratively and revisited over time.

Confirm the offered session formats before booking, since the biography does not specify exact options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy lives, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when schedules are tight. Different ways of meeting can also help when someone prefers less time on camera or needs a shorter session during a busy day.