About Juanita
Juanita Franklin greets people with a simple message: your story matters. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family challenges. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood from the first visit.
She listens for what matters most to each person and then works alongside them to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, such as new ways to handle overwhelming thoughts, small behavior changes, or communication techniques for strained relationships. She keeps language plain so steps are easy to use in daily life. Franklin draws from a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to match the client's needs.
That might mean practicing skills for emotional regulation, looking at patterns that keep problems stuck, or shaping a plan to move past painful experiences. She adapts her style rather than sticking to a single method. Her background includes two decades of clinical work and licensure as an LPC in Texas and Alaska, and she currently practices in Colorado.
She works with adults facing issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness, and challenges related to adoption and foster care. People who come to her typically want straightforward guidance, practical tools, and steady support while they build resilience and make change.
To begin, visitors follow the site's Start Therapy flow to match with her and schedule a session according to availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Franklin uses several evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change mood and stress levels; it can help with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings, which can help people manage ongoing distress. Trauma-informed approaches emphasize safety and pacing, helping people process painful experiences without becoming overwhelmed.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Confirm the available session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Many people find online therapy helps fit care into busy lives by reducing travel time, allowing workday check-ins, or making it easier to keep regular appointments. It also makes it possible to keep momentum between in-person visits and to use written or audio check-ins when that matches someone's needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Texas, Alaska
- Languages
- English