About Janet
Janet Caldwell is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. She invites clients who worry about relationships, parenting, work-life balance, or struggles with focus to talk about what matters most to them. Her tone is direct and practical, and she keeps sessions focused on usable steps clients can try between meetings.
She uses a mix of approaches to match the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Janet draws on client-centered work to listen deeply and follow the client's priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice thoughts and try small behavior changes that ease anxiety or lift mood. Janet trained in human development and earned a master’s degree in counseling and community psychology.
She holds the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, LMHC, and is licensed in Florida and New York. Those years of study led to a two-decade counseling career working with common life stresses and transitions. In sessions she keeps language plain and practical.
Conversations cover relationship patterns, parenting strains, grief, workplace stress, compulsive behaviors, ADHD concerns, and ways to cope with loneliness or low self-esteem. Clients can expect straightforward suggestions and a collaborative planning style. Online and phone formats are part of how she works, which lets people fit sessions into busy schedules.
The focus is on helping clients discover manageable changes and clearer next steps they can use right away.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. In practice this means sessions start with what matters to the person and build goals together, which helps with relationship concerns, parenting stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood. It uses simple experiments and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, address compulsions, and improve daily routines for better focus and mood.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. Janet will talk with the client about their needs, preferences, and goals, then suggest approaches to try. She adjusts the plan as the work progresses so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people see facial cues and work through relationship patterns. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or help when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, short coaching moments, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on clear goals and usable strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida
- Languages
- English
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