Jane Collingwood, LCSW

Jane Collingwood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin who focuses on practical help for people facing major life shifts. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to support those dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, and midlife questions. Her style is open and nonjudgmental, and she aims to build a real working relationship with each person.

She uses everyday strategies that people can try between sessions. That includes cognitive behavioral tools to notice unhelpful thinking and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions. She also brings acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values and move toward meaningful action.

Jane has worked in homes, residential treatment, and outpatient settings, so she is used to meeting people where they are. That experience informs how she adapts sessions to life circumstances like caregiving demands, chronic illness, or major life transitions. She also helps with parenting stress, intimacy concerns, addiction-related issues, and compassion fatigue.

Her approach is collaborative and tailored. She takes time to learn a person’s priorities and tries to match techniques to what actually fits their daily life. People who come to her for midlife re-evaluation or coping with loss will find a mix of practical skills and values-focused conversation.

Jane works with adults across many stages of life and keeps the work straightforward. She encourages small, achievable changes and tracks progress together. This approach aims to make therapy useful and relevant to each person’s situation.

How Jane’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult feelings. It is useful for life changes, midlife questioning, and persistent worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments to reduce distress and improve mood. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships when feelings get intense.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jane will collaborate with each person to choose which methods make sense based on their goals and daily life. She takes time to try different techniques and adjusts the plan if something feels off or unhelpful.

Confirm the current session formats before booking, since the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use skills learned in sessions in their actual daily settings. Licensed professionals can help structure practical exercises that translate to real life, and Jane emphasizes concrete tools and values-based steps that can be practiced between meetings.