About Janice
Janice Nass is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of practice experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, chronic illness, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focusing on small, practical changes that can make daily life feel more manageable.
She encourages clients to notice the stories their minds tell and to try reframing those thoughts when they get stuck. Janice helps people reconnect with their core values so choices line up with what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions include honest conversation and simple tools clients can use between meetings. Her background includes long-term care and hospice social work, administrative roles, and work in group practice settings. Those experiences shaped a calm, steady approach to hard topics like loss, burnout, and chronic health challenges.
She leans on decades of clinical work when guiding people through transitions. Janice combines elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, client-centered therapy, and solution-focused work. She adapts techniques to fit each person’s goals rather than forcing one method on everyone.
The aim is practical progress - clearer thinking, better coping skills, and improved daily functioning. People who choose Janice often want a thoughtful listener who offers down-to-earth guidance. She helps clients identify supports and healthy self-care routines, and she works with them to change unhelpful patterns.
Her message is simple: it’s never too late to try again and to build a life that feels meaningful.
Approaches in Online Sessions and What They Do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then aim actions toward what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering concrete exercises to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and reflects so clients can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time, checking in about what helps and what feels off, so the plan evolves with the client's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can fit a break at work or save bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or people who prefer typing their thoughts. These options make it easier to schedule sessions and keep momentum during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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