About Janice
Janice Ricks is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with eleven years of clinical therapy experience. She practices from Ohio and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Janice uses straightforward language and a calm, steady approach when meeting someone for the first time.
She emphasizes practical steps people can use between sessions. Janice draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people live in line with their values even when feelings are strong. Her background includes long teaching roles in social work and many years of practice with diverse concerns such as trauma, LGBT matters, caregiving strain, and life transitions.
That mix of classroom and clinical work shapes a patient, explanatory style that aims to make therapy feel manageable. Janice treats mood conditions like bipolar and depression and helps clients cope with grief, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. She pays attention to relational patterns, communication problems, and codependency so clients can try new ways of relating.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while remaining warm and person-focused. Janice encourages clients to set small, achievable steps and reviews progress together. She invites people to reach out when they are ready to begin.
How Janice’s Methods Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety, grief, or low mood get in the way of living a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It gives concrete tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new routines, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and some relationship problems.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Janice will work with each client to choose or combine methods based on their goals, needs, and pace. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the plan as therapy proceeds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when it helps, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets clients share updates between appointments. This range makes it simpler to keep therapy going around work, caregiving, or travel plans.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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