About Janet
Janet Jacobs is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 28 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, low self-esteem, or the challenges of everyday change. Her work also includes support around addiction, grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, and ADHD.
Janet listens first to understand each person's story and strengths. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and helps them build skills that fit their day-to-day routines.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused, with room to talk through feelings and practice new ways of coping. Her approach emphasizes evidence-based techniques that translate into real behavior changes. Janet helps people set small, achievable goals and track progress over time.
She offers ways to improve sleep, manage mood swings, handle anger, and reduce the impact of chronic stress. Over nearly three decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns including caregiver stress, body image, communication problems, and substance-related issues. That breadth helps her tailor strategies to each person’s needs.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, dissociation, and commitment or attachment difficulties. Janet provides services in English and accepts international clients. She uses multiple online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and communication style.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and her style is practical, steady, and focused on building useful tools.
How evidence-based methods translate to online work
Janet uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on skills people can use right away. One approach emphasizes practical skills for managing anxiety and mood through step-by-step behavior changes and routine adjustments; this helps with sleep, daily structure, and reducing worry. Another approach focuses on improving communication and attachment patterns by practicing new ways to express needs and set boundaries, which can reduce relationship stress and intimacy problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Janet works collaboratively to match techniques to each person's goals, preferences, and life demands. Together they try options, track what helps, and adjust the plan so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical benefits. Video lets people work face-to-face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text messaging let clients share short updates, ask questions between sessions, or use a less formal way to process things. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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