About Janel
Janel Guinane is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing depression, addiction, trauma, body image concerns, and parenting strain. Her style is direct, warm, and practical for parents reading on a phone.
Janel draws on ten years of professional experience and earlier frontline work in residential programs. She believes people are experts in their own lives and works as a guide alongside them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and doable steps rather than long lectures. Her approach blends client-centered listening with practical techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find the reasons they want to change and keep going. For trauma and painful memories she uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a method aimed at reducing the intensity of upsetting memories. Solution-Focused Therapy is used when people want quick, targeted changes and concrete next steps.
Janel also brings experience working with people affected by caregiving stress, codependency, communication problems, and coping after disasters. She aims to make sessions useful and relevant to everyday life. If a parent needs practical tools and steady support, she focuses on what will help right now.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's goals. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns back, and helps set realistic steps that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change thinking and behavior. Online CBT often includes short exercises, thought records, and behavior plans that can be practiced between sessions.The right approach is usually decided together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those needs. This shared process makes it easier to adjust techniques over time if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on goals consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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