About Janet
Janet Jacobs is a licensed professional counselor with nearly three decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship struggles. Her approach centers on practical steps people can use in daily life and on building confidence to face difficult changes.
Janet treats common concerns like sleep and eating problems, anger, and issues tied to caregiving or chronic illness. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and bipolar-related challenges.
Background and approach
LGBT concerns and intimacy-related struggles are within her practice focus as well. Her work emphasizes a collaborative process. She listens for strengths in each person's story and uses those strengths to set small, achievable goals.
Sessions aim to be straightforward, with tools that can be tried between meetings and reviewed afterward. Janet holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and she practices in Wisconsin. Over 28 years she has worked across many settings, helping people manage life transitions, career stress, and patterns like avoidance or control that get in the way of daily functioning.
If someone is unsure where to begin, Janet helps narrow the first steps. She encourages starting with one clear concern and tracking what changes feel helpful as work proceeds.
Practical approaches for online care and coping
Janet uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life practice. One approach emphasizes learning concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress - breathing, grounding, planning small steps, and testing out new behaviors to reduce worry. This helps when anxiety stops daily activities or sleep. Another approach focuses on mood and behavior patterns for depression and low motivation. It breaks tasks into manageable pieces and builds routines that restore energy and confidence. That approach is useful for work, caregiving, and career-related stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Janet works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, daily schedule, and what feels doable. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or new challenges appear.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. People can choose video calls for a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, short live chats for quick check-ins, or text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options offer flexibility for work breaks, caregiving duties, travel, or steady follow-up while still focusing on practical steps and measurable progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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