Jane Perkins, MS, LCPC, LPC-S

Jane Perkins, MS, LCPC, LPC-S, is a licensed professional counselor, Christian life coach, and founder of Anchored Woman with 28 years of counseling experience.

She earned a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Illinois in 1996. Jane is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor in Missouri.

Her professional training remains valuable to her. She is also a Christian whose approach is shaped by the conviction that Scripture is true, sufficient, and central to understanding life and change; God’s Word is the final authority for the faith-based approach she brings.

Through Anchored Woman, Jane offers non-clinical Christian life coaching and biblical education nationwide; these are distinct from licensed counseling, therapy, diagnosis, or crisis services. Therapy and counseling are provided separately through Are You Ready Counseling for Illinois and Missouri residents.

Choose the format that fits this season: a course, a group experience, or individual coaching. The goal is to pause, recognize what is true, and respond with a Scripture-shaped next step.

Anchored in truth. Grounded in grace.

28 years

of counseling experience

LCPC + LPC-S

licensed in Illinois and Missouri

Master’s-level

counseling education and clinical preparation

Biblically integrated

coaching and education for Christian women

Why Anchored Woman exists

I did not need another counseling practice. I needed another way to serve.

Jane did not begin Anchored Woman because she was tired of counseling or wanted out. She values the privilege and responsibility of her 28 years of counseling experience with women. As a licensed counselor in Illinois and Missouri, she continues to hold that work with care.

For the first ten years of her career, Jane worked from a secular counseling perspective. After coming to faith in Christ, she began integrating biblical truth more intentionally into the way she understood suffering, thought patterns, relationships, and lasting change. Her professional training still matters deeply to her; she has simply come to believe that Scripture is essential in the places where people most need hope and direction.

That shift did not lead her to discard clinical wisdom. It clarified how she wanted to serve: with thoughtful care for the whole person and with confidence that God’s Word speaks to fear, identity, relationships, guilt, grief, and the renewing of the mind.

Yet she kept hearing from Christian women outside those two states who wanted help but could not receive clinical counseling from her because of state licensure boundaries. That led Jane to ask a different question: Is there an appropriate way to serve women who are not looking for clinical mental health treatment?

Anchored Woman grew from that need. It offers biblical teaching, practical application, and accountability for women who want to sit with Scripture when life feels heavy, confusing, or stuck.

What women bring here

You may know what is true, and still struggle to live it out.

For years, Jane has heard women say they know God is in control, yet still feel afraid. They know they are not responsible for everyone, yet feel guilty when they say no. They know what the Bible says, yet wonder why knowing it has not changed how they feel.

At Anchored Woman, the work is not about white-knuckling through those questions. It is about slowing down to examine what you believe about God, where He is in what you are walking through, who He says you are, what you are carrying, and what His Word actually says about the next faithful step.

A clear distinction

Counseling and coaching are not the same.

In her counseling practice, Jane functions as a licensed mental health professional. Counseling may involve assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and therapeutic interventions.

Anchored Woman Coaching is different by design. It does not diagnose or treat mental health disorders, and it is not a substitute for mental health treatment. Here, Jane teaches biblical wisdom, practical application, accountability, and Scripture-shaped reflection for your everyday life.

Coaching offers room to consider beliefs, patterns, choices, relationships, and the gap between what you know and how you are living, so you can bring what is real to God and take a next step rooted in truth.