Janell Cox
licensed marriage and family therapist (#124050)
She/Her/Hers
I encounter so many people who wonder, “Who am I really… what am I here in life to do… and why am I so unhappy?” I am here to help you explore those questions and find the answers that are within you. I will be curious with you about what your soul wants, and what your life could be like if you weren’t carrying around so much pain. Pain is expressed as anxiety, depression, avoidance/numbness, infidelity/drama, chronic physical ailments, addiction, emptiness, codependency, trauma, obsession, control, failure, worthlessness, or rejection (and on and on). The truth is, pain is pain, whether we experience it as physical, emotional, or spiritual.
I believe so much of our pain is actually our bodies protecting us from deeper emotions like anger, grief, and fear. This is not your fault, but your best effort to stay safe. Pain will cycle through us over and over if we choose to ignore it, medicate it, or blame others for it. There is an opportunity here to understand it and integrate it as wisdom. I believe when we start telling the truth, we heal.
I’ve known that I was a healer since I was a young girl. I work from an empathic, intuitive, relational, light-hearted, direct, somatic, and soul-centered approach. I believe we are being initiated to pay attention. There is no better time than now to start looking within to who you are and what you are here to do, integrating wisdom to guide you to deeper fulfillment, connection, power, peace, love, and joy.
Originally from Chicago, I received my BA in theatre arts from Indiana University Bloomington and my MA in clinical psychology from Antioch University with a focus on Spiritual and Depth Psychology. I was supervised under Jennifer Walters from 2018-2020 and am now a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with a strong mind-body-spirit and psychodynamic lens.
I’ve been a yoga teacher for 11 years, dancer since childhood, and I’m also trained in the art of applied esoteric astrology through Debra Silverman (I enjoy fusing the archetypal patterns of astrology into my work.) I am also sex positive and versed in the variations of relationship structures. I identify as straight, cis-gendered, and I am peacefully divorced with no children by choice. I also have a beautiful German Shepherd named Jordan.