Jean Kraljev, LPC, LCMHC

Jean Kraljev is a licensed counselor who helps people facing addiction, depression, low self-esteem, career stress, and life changes. She meets clients with respect and compassion and builds a plan that reflects each person’s needs. Her style is practical and straightforward so people know what to expect in sessions.

With 25 years of experience, Jean combines several therapy methods to match each person’s situation. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build new coping skills. She draws on acceptance and commitment approaches to help people clarify values and take meaningful action despite difficult feelings.

Jean also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to make space for clear communication and honest exploration of relationships. When stronger emotional regulation is needed, she brings in strategies from dialectical behavior therapy to teach concrete skills for distress tolerance and emotion management.

She has worked with a wide range of concerns including bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, eating issues, compassion fatigue, and grief around aging and end-of-life matters. Additional areas she addresses include abandonment, communication problems, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, and isolation.

Jean tailors each conversation and treatment plan to the person in front of her. To begin, she encourages people to take the small step of reaching out and completing the initial match process so scheduling can move forward.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Jean uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people identify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. That approach is useful for depression, anxiety about life changes, and motivation challenges. Attachment-based therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early connections affect current bonds; online sessions can support work on communication, trust, and emotional responsiveness.

She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on the person’s experience and priorities. In sessions she listens closely and tailors questions and exercises to each person’s needs so the work feels collaborative and relevant.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jean works together with clients to test methods and adjust the plan based on goals and progress. That collaborative process helps people try concrete skills, check what works, and shift strategies when needed.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into workdays, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and let people choose whether to use video or audio depending on comfort and bandwidth.