About Janice
Janice McDermott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of practice. She draws on decades of experience in outpatient and inpatient mental health, addiction recovery, school settings, and independent practice to help people move toward change. Her background includes supervising social workers and writing books about healing and emotional growth.
Janice keeps sessions grounded and straightforward. She begins where a person is and listens for the parts of them that already know what to do next.
Background and approach
Conversations often focus on sensing the present moment and finding concrete first steps instead of chasing perfection. She works with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and burnout. Janice also supports people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, career troubles, life transitions, and issues related to self-esteem and purpose.
ADHD is included among the areas she addresses. Her style is collaborative and practical. Janice helps clients name what matters, test small changes, and notice the effects.
She uses a range of approaches to match a person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Over the years she has guided people through addiction recovery, trauma and loss, blended family issues, and aging-related concerns. She emphasizes steady progress and self-empowerment, aiming to help people find clearer direction and more manageable daily routines.
Janice sees clients in Mississippi and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Conversations are shaped by each person’s goals, and the work moves at a pace that fits their life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying values and taking meaningful action even when emotions are difficult. It helps people with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by teaching them to accept feelings and commit to practical steps that match their priorities.Client-Centered Therapy centers on empathetic listening and working from where the person is. This approach helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions for relationship issues, self-esteem, and coping with loss.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and tests small changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It offers concrete tools for managing unhelpful thoughts and building routines that support daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. If one approach doesn’t fit, she will adapt the plan so sessions remain useful and relevant.
Online therapy makes regular sessions easier to fit into life. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation from different locations, phone sessions work when bandwidth or movement is an issue, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options provide flexibility while keeping the focus on progress and practical changes.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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