About Janis
Janis Edralin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 19 years of experience who helps people facing addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, and LGBT-related concerns. She offers calm, direct support for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. Janis focuses on helping clients find strengths, regain motivation, and move toward a life that feels meaningful.
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions emphasize clear steps, skills practice, and understanding how life patterns developed.
Background and approach
She uses approaches like acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, and attachment-informed work to reduce distress and increase coping skills. Janis brings a wide background to her counseling. Her experience includes mentoring other counselors and teaching at the graduate level in Texas.
She has also worked internationally and held leadership roles in corporate and nonprofit settings, which shaped her multicultural perspective. Clients can expect a respectful, goal-focused process. Janis helps people set realistic goals, learn new ways to manage strong emotions, and address behaviors that get in the way of recovery or relationships.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. Outside of counseling she enjoys hiking, biking, fencing, and reading literature and poetry. Those interests inform a creative and disciplined approach to clinical work.
Reaching out for help is a first step, and she offers steady support while clients build the skills they need.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without letting them drive actions and then choose values-based steps. It can help with anxiety, grief, addictive patterns, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and can help people improve communication and emotional connection in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Treatment often combines techniques from different approaches to match the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible options for brief updates, coping tools between sessions, or when written reflection feels helpful. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and keep therapy active across busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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