About Janet
Janet Wise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of practice in New York. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, stress, addictions, and ADHD. Parents and individuals seeking support with relationships, parenting, sleep, eating, or self-esteem often contact her for practical guidance.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals. Sessions often combine talking, skills practice, and simple exercises you can try between visits.
Background and approach
The aim is to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping in ways that fit your life. Janet draws on methods from cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, emotion-focused strategies, and mindfulness practices. She also uses client-centered and motivational interviewing techniques to keep the work collaborative.
She adapts methods to each person rather than using one fixed plan. Her background includes pastoral counseling and years providing grief and crisis support in hospital settings such as emergency rooms and intensive care units. That experience shaped how she supports people facing loss and sudden life changes.
She also brings sensitivity to cultural and identity issues, including LGBT concerns. Outside of therapy Janet teaches yoga, Enerchi (a form of Tai Chi), and cardio fitness. Many clients appreciate this whole-person perspective that links mental health with movement and self-care.
If you want clear, practical steps and steady support, she helps families and individuals work toward greater stability and purpose.
Online approaches that focus on values, thoughts, and emotions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. It can help with worry, insomnia, and mood symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on how emotions shape relationships and attachment; it can help people understand and shift core emotional responses that drive conflict or disconnection.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Janet works with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. She explains options, checks in about what is working, and adjusts techniques so the plan fits the client’s needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let you have in-depth conversations and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching easier between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, and other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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