About Janice
Janice Ruchlis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. She writes in a direct, compassionate way and aims to help clients feel more hopeful and capable. Janice brings 30 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical change over time.
Janice blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new skills.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape present reactions. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused methods are woven into sessions to help with strong feelings and self-regulation. Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative.
She listens for what matters to the client, then suggests small, manageable steps to try between sessions. Conversations include goal-setting, skill practice, and checking what’s working. Parents and individuals worried about attention, mood, or coping with life changes can find concrete tools here.
Janice has worked with people from many backgrounds and several life stages. She pays attention to identity, cultural differences, and unique family histories when planning care. Her California licensure is LMFT, which stands for licensed marriage and family therapist.
Sessions may address issues such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster-care concerns, body image, sexual identity, intimacy questions, addiction, and career stress. Janice aims to help clients build skills, strengthen relationships, and move toward clearer daily routines and better emotional balance.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Janice commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage attention challenges. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and important relationships influence current patterns and helps people change unhelpful relational responses.She also brings mindfulness and emotionally-focused skills into sessions to help people notice strong feelings and build calmer responses. Finding the right approach is part of the work together; she will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust strategies based on what helps the client meet their needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and exercises that benefit from face-to-face cues. Phone sessions can fit into a tight schedule or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or a way to stay connected when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and manageable for people balancing school, work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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