About Janice
Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with thirty years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and low self-esteem. She also supports concerns such as phobias, addictions, grief, parenting strain, and relationship difficulties.
Her approach blends practical behavior work with attention to emotional bonds. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, and emotionally-focused work to help people manage symptoms and strengthen connections.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, focused on what helps day to day. Janice brings a developmental and attachment lens to therapy. That means she pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns.
She also draws on dialectical ideas when emotions feel overwhelming, offering skills to cope in the moment. She has worked across many life stages and cultural backgrounds and values differences in identity and experience. Her practice addresses a wide range of issues including intimacy and sexual concerns, body image, ADHD, chronic illness, and caregiving stress.
People typically leave sessions with concrete strategies they can try between meetings. Janice encourages collaborative planning so therapy fits each person’s goals and life. Her California-based LMFT credential is listed as LMFT and reflects her license in California.
Approach and online care that adapts to your needs
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and behavior. In a few sessions this approach can help people see patterns in their close relationships and practice different ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety, phobias, or depressive patterns through small experiments and new skills.
Janice treats the choice of approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust direction if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and build rapport similar to in-person work. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who want flexible, ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to get support from a licensed professional across distances.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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