About Janet
Janet Jacobs is a licensed professional counselor who helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Janet encourages clients to notice their strengths and use those strengths to move forward.
Janet holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC) in Wisconsin and brings 28 years of experience to her work. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address a wide range of concerns, including self-esteem, grief, addiction, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing issues with sleep, eating, and attention challenges such as ADHD. Her approach treats the client as the expert on their own life. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused, with an emphasis on problem solving and building coping skills.
Janet helps people break problems into small steps and practices strategies between meetings. Janet has worked across many settings and has experience with trauma, relationship conflict, and caregiving stress. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, chronic illness, and career strain.
Her long career means she has seen many different situations and adapts what she offers to each person’s needs. People who contact Janet can expect straightforward conversations about what’s working and what isn’t. She helps set clear, realistic goals and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
The tone in sessions is respectful, steady, and practical.
How Janet Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Janet uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical skills and coping strategies. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more balanced thoughts; this approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress. Another approach centers on building consistent routines and behavioral experiments to test small changes, which can help with sleep, motivation, and addictive patterns.Choosing the right method is collaborative. Janet works with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She explains options in simple terms and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is good for in-depth conversations and observing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for ongoing support, brief reflections, or when writing helps people process thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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