Jean Hannigan, LCPC

Jean Hannigan is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who focuses on adults and teens facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings 25 years of experience in mental health to conversations that often feel overwhelming. Jean aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can talk through what matters to them and find practical next steps.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Early meetings review what’s happening now and what the client wants to change. Together they build a plan that uses each person’s strengths. Sessions are aimed at manageable progress rather than quick fixes.

Jean’s background includes work in schools, social services, early intervention for the State of Illinois, and private practice. She completed a master’s degree in clinical psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology and holds the LCPC credential. She also has certificates in grief counseling and narcissistic abuse recovery.

She uses several therapy approaches to match different needs, including client-centered methods, emotionally-focused ideas, mindfulness, narrative work, and solution-focused techniques. These approaches guide how she helps people process loss, set boundaries, reduce anxiety, and rehearse new ways of relating.

Jean also helps people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, cancer and hospice concerns, family-of-origin struggles, gender dysphoria, and aging and geriatric issues. Her work often centers on recovering after relationship hurts, managing life transitions, and finding clearer direction.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead. It helps people who need a supportive space to sort feelings, build confidence, and set goals. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on feelings in relationships and helps people change patterns that cause distress. It can be useful for processing grief, attachment wounds, or relationship pain.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Jean will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust techniques as progress is made or new concerns appear.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins, and helping people meet during work breaks or between appointments. They also let people use mindfulness and narrative exercises from their everyday environment, which can help transfer gains from session to daily life.