Jeanette Grissom, LMHC

Jeanette Grissom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Indiana with four decades of experience. She focuses on practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, addiction, trauma, and everyday struggles. Her style is straightforward and goal-focused to help people make steady progress.

She favors cognitive behavioral approaches that help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and on dialectical skills to manage intense emotions. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing has been part of her work with trauma when that is needed.

Jeanette combines individual therapy and group psychoeducation to teach coping skills and life strategies. She builds treatment plans around each person's situation instead of relying on one set method. Her goal is to help people build skills they can use between sessions.

Her background includes long experience with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns. That means she is familiar with how addiction, mood disorders, and trauma can interact and complicate recovery. She helps people work through caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin issues.

Jeanette emphasizes self-efficacy and practical change. She invites people to try small steps and notice what works. If someone is ready to begin, she asks them to start the intake process and together they shape a plan that fits daily life.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Jeanette often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify habits of thought and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on changing patterns that keep problems going and teaches concrete exercises for managing anxiety, depression, and many everyday struggles. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes values and action - it helps people notice difficult feelings while still taking steps that matter to them. That approach can be useful when the goal is to rebuild a meaningful routine after loss or life change. Dialectical Behavior Therapy supplies tools for handling strong emotions and improving communication, which is helpful for anger, relationship strains, and stress-related crises.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress happens. Treatment often blends techniques so the work fits real life rather than forcing a single method.

Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people do shorter updates, practice skills between sessions, or communicate when a full session won’t fit the day. These options help therapy fit work, family, and changing schedules.