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Jan Horner, LPC

  • Experience10 years
  • LocationPennsylvania
  • Focus areasRelationship, Family, and Intimacy-related issues
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Jan

Jan Horner is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who draws on Internal Family Systems alongside client-centered and existential perspectives to support people navigating relationship and life challenges.

Background and approach

With ten years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania, she emphasizes a collaborative, respectful connection that helps clients explore the parts of themselves contributing to pain or stagnation while building resilience and clarity.

She focuses on a broad range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, family dynamics, stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, grief, and ADHD, as well as caregiving and end-of-life concerns. Jan also works with concerns around self-esteem, career transitions, parenting, and identity questions such as LGBT-related matters.

Her approach is attuned to attachment and family-of-origin patterns while addressing practical problems like communication and blended family adjustment. In sessions she listens without judgment and helps clients identify needs behind difficult feelings and behaviors.

Jan encourages compassionate self-understanding, practical coping strategies, and purposeful action so clients can move toward their goals with greater courage and calm.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps people notice and dialogue with the distinct parts of themselves that hold emotions, beliefs, or protective strategies; online work can support this internal exploration and the development of compassion for those parts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes values-guided action and learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful behavior, which can be practiced through guided exercises during sessions and between appointments. Client-Centered Therapy centers on warm, attentive listening and creating a safe space for clients to lead the pace of healing, fostering trust whether meeting by video or chat.

Finding the right approach is typically a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to identify which combination of methods fits their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting techniques over time as circumstances and insights evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to engage around schedules, mobility, and location. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver continuous therapeutic support, homework guidance, and check-ins in ways that can integrate with everyday life and promote steady progress.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Jan commonly help with?
She works with relationship and family issues, intimacy-related difficulties, stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, grief, and a range of identity and life-purpose concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental, combining Internal Family Systems ideas with client-centered and existential sensibilities to explore internal parts and meaning.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience working with a variety of mental health and relational concerns.
Where is she located and what credentials does she hold?
She is based in Pennsylvania and holds the credential PA LPC PC013506 as a licensed professional counselor.
Can nonlocal clients work with her?
Yes, she accepts international clients and offers services to people outside her immediate region.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and preferences.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Interested clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsLGBTTrauma and abuseGriefEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Aging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBlended family issuesCommitment issuesCommunication problemsEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisSelf-loveSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Client-Centered TherapyExistential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

Pennsylvania

Languages

English