Janeen Mongar, LPC

Janeen Mongar is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns. She speaks plainly and offers a steady presence for those who feel stuck or overwhelmed. Her approach focuses on practical steps and honest conversation to make daily life easier to manage.

Clients meet a calm listener who encourages open sharing without judgment. Sessions center on understanding what you are facing now and finding small, doable changes. Janeen helps people work through anger, motivation struggles, low self-esteem, and the lasting effects of trauma.

Over 17 years as an LPC Janeen has worked with a wide range of issues. She draws from several approaches to match the moment in session, combining thought-focused skills with emotion-focused work and mindful awareness. This mix helps people manage symptoms, rebuild coping, and make clearer choices.

She also supports those dealing with grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, addictions, and mood challenges including bipolar and seasonal changes. Additional focus areas include obsessive or compulsive concerns, postpartum depression, veteran and armed forces issues, and traumatic brain injury.

Janeen aims to help clients set realistic goals and practice small strategies between sessions. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, with attention to what helps someone function better day to day. To start, she asks about immediate needs and then shapes sessions around each person’s priorities.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on living according to personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches steps to change patterns that keep problems going. It often helps with panic, OCD, and mood issues. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening-based relationship where the client leads the pace and content of sessions and feels heard.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and practical needs and then try methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and needs evolve.

The original biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session options before booking. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into a busy life, because they reduce travel time, make it easier to schedule during a lunch break, or allow a shorter check-in when needed. Online work can still use ACT, CBT, and client-centered techniques to teach coping skills, plan small behavior changes, and practice new ways of responding to stress.