About Janet
Janet Natale is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 31 years of professional experience. She practices in California and brings a calm, practical approach to helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, and ADHD. Her work is straightforward and centered on what each person needs now.
Janet draws on a long career in independent practice, school-based settings, and community programs for adults and adolescents. That background includes work with people connected to foster care and those facing emotional disorders.
Background and approach
She uses that experience to help clients find what already works for them and build new skills where needed. Her style is strength-based and motivational. Sessions focus on clear goals, honest conversation, and skills you can use between meetings.
Janet helps people identify obstacles and try practical strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Janet incorporates evidence-informed methods such as client-centered work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused approaches. She adapts these methods to each person's situation rather than following a single formula.
The aim is to make therapy useful and relevant to everyday life. People who turn to her often want concrete tools, steady support, and an experienced clinician who can listen without judgment. If someone wants help with grief, trauma, parenting stress, or career strain, she offers clear, step-by-step guidance.
Janet emphasizes collaboration and practical progress over jargon or long roadmaps.
How Janet’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a therapeutic relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a space to sort thoughts and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches specific tools for managing anxiety, depression, and attention challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness when strong emotions or relationship conflicts get in the way.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Janet will collaborate with each person to identify priorities, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Decisions about which methods to use are made together, based on needs, goals, and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while still working on practical skills and real-life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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