About Janet
Janet Lengsfelder is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 25 years of experience. She draws on a background in nursing and mental health to help people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. Her approach centers on getting practical relief while building a steadier sense of self.
Janet begins by listening to what feels most urgent. She uses clear, down-to-earth conversation to help people notice patterns in thoughts, feelings, and relationships.
Background and approach
That early work reduces intense panic and makes problems feel more manageable. She blends attachment-focused ideas with emotionally-focused and client-centered methods. Those approaches help people strengthen bonds, improve communication, and cope with loss or caregiving stress.
Janet also uses mindfulness practices to calm the body and quiet racing thoughts. Her early career as a nurse shaped how she supports people through illness, caregiving, and end-of-life concerns. That experience informs practical problem-solving around medical and hospice-related stress as well as grief work.
Janet helps people facing addictions, codependency, commitment issues, and career challenges by breaking big problems into small, doable steps. She encourages people to take risks toward fuller living while learning to tolerate discomfort. This work aims to shift catastrophic thoughts into calmer, more workable feelings.
People meet Janet for both short-term solution-focused work and deeper emotional exploration. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and stays practical about goals and next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Janet often draws on attachment-based work to help people understand their ways of relating and to reduce anxious reactivity in relationships. This approach looks at how early bonds shape current patterns and helps people build safer, more trusting connections. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, which focuses on the feelings that drive relationship conflicts and helps people express needs more clearly and repair ruptures.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Janet treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will work with each person to decide what feels most helpful for their goals and situation. She aims to match techniques to individual needs, whether that means short-term coping skills or deeper emotional work.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick updates or brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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