Dr. Jean Frank , LMHC

Dr. Jean Frank is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with two decades of clinical experience across private practice, corrections, schools, hospitals, and community mental health centers. She combines extensive training with a flexible, client-centered approach, recognizing that no single method suits everyone. Drawing on modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic insight, and mindfulness practices, she helps people strengthen coping skills, find creative solutions to conflict, and move forward during personal crises.

Her work has included support for adjustment to major life and career changes, loss and grief, trauma, substance and alcohol use concerns, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, and cognitive or behavioral difficulties related to brain dysfunction. She also attends to areas like parenting stress, caregiver issues, abandonment and attachment concerns, eating and body image struggles, and first responder stress.

Dr. Frank emphasizes an empathic, non-judgmental online therapeutic space that centers each person’s goals rather than any particular belief system. She offers guidance for people who are uncertain about counseling and helps them decide whether therapy is the right next step. Her academic background includes a doctoral degree in biology, a Master of Science with a major in psychology, and prior licensure as a psychologist in Brazil, alongside her LMHC credential in Florida.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Dr. Jean Frank uses evidence-informed approaches tailored to each person’s needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people learn to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them and to take value-driven actions that improve daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and early bonds to address issues like abandonment, communication problems, and relationship struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many behavioral concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Frank works collaboratively with clients - assessing needs, goals, and preferences - to select and adapt strategies that fit each person’s situation and pace.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers practical flexibility. Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make scheduling easier around work, caregiving, or mobility limits. These options allow continuing therapeutic work from different locations and enable ongoing support in a format that suits the client and therapist.