About Janet
Janet Natale is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 31 years of clinical experience in California. She brings a steady, practical approach to common problems like anxiety, stress, addiction, and relationship strain. Her style is straightforward and hopeful, aimed at helping people take small, useful steps forward.
Janet has worked in independent practice, school settings, and community programs serving adults and adolescents. That range gave her experience with foster care and blended-family situations, as well as with grief, trauma, and recovery from substance problems.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating gender identity, HIV/AIDS concerns, and aging-related questions. In sessions she uses approaches that center the person and their goals. She listens first, then helps clients spot patterns and try new ways of coping.
Practical skills, clearer communication, and paced emotional work are common parts of her sessions. Janet often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior strategies to build emotional regulation. She also uses emotionally-focused methods when the main concern involves attachment or relationship repair.
The therapist mixes these methods to suit each person's situation. People who come to Janet usually want concrete tools and steady support. She helps with parenting stress, career pressures, ADHD-related struggles, grief, and mood concerns.
Her approach emphasizes strengths and motivation while addressing the blocks that get in the way of change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects concerns back clearly, and helps people find their own answers; this approach suits issues like low self-esteem or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful patterns and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about what matters to the client, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what works. Clients and the therapist check progress together and shift focus when needed so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of coping exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging fit quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or flexible contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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