About Janet
Janet Lengsfelder is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She blends practical care with emotional work to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Janet began her career as a nurse, caring for people through illness.
That hands-on work showed her how much healing depends on steady support and a trusted team. She later completed graduate study and further training in Gestalt therapy to deepen her skills in emotional care.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on attachment and emotionally-focused methods that help people understand their patterns. Sessions emphasize building a stronger sense of self and clearer communication, rather than quick fixes. She guides people to notice recurring life themes and to make different choices from a more centered place.
Janet uses client-centered and mindfulness practices to slow down intense moments and reduce panic. She also draws on insights from the Gottman Method when relationship issues are a focus. Together these approaches aim to move overwhelming fear or reactivity toward manageable feelings and clearer thinking.
People come for many reasons including parenting strain, caregiving stress, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, cancer-related coping, and end-of-life issues. Janet encourages practical steps and small experiments that make daily life easier while also working on deeper emotional change. She offers therapy in California and speaks English.
Her style is direct but compassionate, inviting clients to take risks that can lead to more satisfaction and less reactivity in their lives.
How Janet’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can be used to identify attachment patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people track their feelings in the moment and shift stuck interaction cycles; it is useful for reducing panic and improving emotional clarity during difficult conversations. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that calm the nervous system and reduce stress in real time.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, current struggles, and personal preferences before recommending a course of work. Together they will adjust methods as progress is made and needs change so the plan fits the individual rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let the therapist and client use facial cues and body language for emotionally-focused work. Phone sessions can be easier when a lower bandwidth connection is needed or for shorter check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can help keep momentum between sessions or suit people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still working on attachment, emotion, and mindfulness skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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