About Janet
Janet Guthrie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Connecticut. She has eight years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and difficult life changes. Her approach is direct and warm, aimed at making sessions feel like a real conversation rather than a lecture.
Janet listens first to understand what matters to each person. She tailors sessions to the issues brought in, whether that is coping with grief, dealing with trauma and abuse, or navigating parenting and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career strain, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her work blends practical strategies with deeper reflection. Janet uses methods that include client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical behavior techniques for managing strong emotions.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are additional tools she draws on when helpful. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. People can expect concrete techniques to try between meetings alongside space to process feelings and history.
Janet pays attention to attachment patterns, codependency, and issues like abandonment or blended family stress when these come up. She also brings experience supporting those with bipolar concerns, anger, intimacy-related issues, and substance use problems. Janet offers options for video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different rhythms and schedules.
If someone is ready to start, she helps them find the next practical step toward change.
How Janet Brings Therapy Online with Practical Methods
Janet often uses client-centered conversation to help people clarify what they want to change and to build trust through listening and collaboration. This approach fits work on relationship strain, caregiving stress, and self-esteem by letting the person's priorities lead the process.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing compulsive or avoidance behaviors because it offers concrete exercises and skills to practice between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are included when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed; these techniques help people manage strong feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Janet will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust as progress is made. She frames therapy as collaborative work rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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