Finding your way in a new chapter of life
College, first job, or career pivot: feeling unmoored, lost, or like you're not where you expected to be.
Reclaiming your identity after change
Post-partum, menopause, weight-loss or gain, injury and illness: rebuilding life after your body, capacity, and emotions shift all at once.
Navigating your relationship shift
Marriage, divorce, or relationship change: coping with joy, grief, and the shock of a new chapter.
Calming your panic and easing your anxiety
Spinning mind, tight chest, racing heart, breath that won't come easily: terrifying yet invisible to the outside world.
Therapy That Honors Your Strengths.
This is not a place where you’re labeled or boxed in. This is a place where your experience matters. My approach is dynamic and collaborative - we build together. You already carry strength, even if it feels buried. In our work, we’ll help you access this strength again and move forward - not just surviving transitions, but transforming through them.
About
Jane graduated from The University of Michigan in 1991. In 1997, she received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. This was after completing a Doctoral Internship at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. Spies-Wert then moved back to her hometown of Grand Rapids in 1998 and spent 12 years working within the Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Center. Her roles have included clinical work, teaching, and supervising interns and post-doctoral students. She commenced her private practice, Jane L. Spies Wert PhD PC, in downtown Grand Rapids in 2012.
Spies-Wert currently provides psychotherapy for patients throughout West Michigan, around the country and internationally.
