About Janie
Janie Shankle is a licensed professional counselor with LPC and LCMHC credentials practicing in North Carolina. She brings 11 years of experience helping people facing grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Janie emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach and sees clients as experts in their own stories.
She listens first, then works with each person to set practical goals. Sessions focus on building everyday skills to handle stress, manage emotions, and improve relationships.
Background and approach
Janie uses straightforward tools drawn from evidence-informed approaches to support coping and growth. Janie has worked with people who face loss, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and complicated family-of-origin issues. She also supports those navigating career shifts, addiction recovery, and feelings of emptiness or shame.
Her background includes helping clients through anger, ADHD struggles, and bipolar mood challenges. In sessions she combines client-centered conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used to clarify goals and build momentum.
Janie adapts methods to what each person finds workable. Her style is calm and pragmatic. She breaks skills into small steps so they fit into daily life.
Janie aims to create a steady space where people can talk through painful experiences and practice new ways of coping. To begin, she invites a simple first step: complete a brief questionnaire and choose a session format. From there she and the client map out priorities and plan follow-up sessions that fit the person’s routine.
How Janie’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and priorities; the therapist listens deeply and follows what matters most to the client. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to process grief, trauma, or difficult decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns that lead to distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress because it teaches specific exercises and behavior changes someone can practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It can be helpful for intense emotions, relationship struggles, and building concrete coping tools.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods based on needs, goals, and what feels manageable. That means trying a direction, checking how it’s going, and adjusting plans as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work and use less bandwidth. Text and live chat are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and help people keep momentum while fitting treatment into their daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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