About Janice
Janice Stidman is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of clinical experience in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and related challenges. Her work also includes support for ADHD, mood concerns, grief, and struggles around self-esteem and relationships.
Janice uses a straightforward, compassionate style. She aims to make sessions feel calm and focused. People can expect clear steps for managing strong emotions and practical tools to use between sessions.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes understanding early patterns that shape reactions and relationships. Janice helps clients notice how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going, and then practices small changes that add up. She draws on methods that teach skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Trauma and loss are handled with care and pacing. Janice combines talking through painful memories with skills to stay grounded in the present. This approach supports gradual healing without pushing past a person’s limits.
She also works with concerns that overlap with identity and life roles, including LGBT issues, career stress, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are collaborative; Janice partners with each person to set goals and track progress. She uses what fits each person best rather than a single fixed plan.
How chosen approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then choose actions that reflect their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes where motivation and direction feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and problem-solving around daily routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for regulating intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan over time so the approach fits the person rather than the person fitting the method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports ongoing thoughts between appointments. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, quicker access from different locations in Mississippi, and multiple ways to keep working toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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