About Janet
Janet Craig is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping people find practical ways to feel steadier in daily life.
Janet draws on long experience in child welfare, hospice work, and schools. She often supports parents as they navigate adolescence and changing family roles. She also helps people cope with loss, loneliness, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her sessions center on listening first, then setting small, achievable goals together. Janet uses acceptance-based and mindfulness approaches alongside solution-focused techniques. She helps clients notice what matters to them and take steps toward those priorities.
Many people meet with her to improve sleep, manage anger, or work on self-esteem. She also supports those facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, and questions about life purpose or midlife changes. Her background includes long-term work with bereavement and end-of-life situations.
Janet prefers a straightforward, respectful tone in sessions. She offers practical strategies as well as time to talk through difficult emotions. Her aim is to help people build coping skills they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions can help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small actions toward them even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life change. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and respecting each person's perspective to build trust and momentum for change. It suits people who want a supportive space to work through hard emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janet will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then use ACT, client-centered techniques, or brief solution-focused steps as fits the situation. The plan is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for real-time conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are practical for short check-ins, brief coping strategies, or when a written format helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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