About Janessa
Janessa Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports clients dealing with ADHD, addictions, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and trauma. Her style is direct and warm so people feel heard and understood from the first session.
Janessa aims to make sessions a place to talk through immediate worries and build practical steps forward. She encourages small, doable changes and reminds clients that progress often comes from steady effort.
Background and approach
That approach is useful for coping with life changes, career stress, or recurring patterns that keep showing up. Her work leans on client-centered conversations alongside tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She uses those methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and practice being present.
Sessions mix discussion with short exercises and clear homework when it will help. Janessa draws on six years of counseling experience across community and clinical settings in Texas. Her LPC credential is listed as LPC.
She focuses on building a trusting space where clients can test new ways of responding to stress and conflict. People who want steady, practical support often find her style useful. She prioritizes clear goals, honest feedback, and steps that fit daily life.
This helps clients move from feeling stuck toward small, meaningful change.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel comfortable naming their worries. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through stress, relationship problems, or parenting strain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises and homework to try between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices can be used during daily life to manage stress and emotional ups and downs.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before, then adjust methods as needed. Clients help set the pace and decide which tools feel most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and keep continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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