About Janet
Janet Natale is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 31 years of practice in California. She draws on long experience in independent practice, schools, and community programs to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship struggles. Janet speaks English and works with adults from many backgrounds, including people affected by adoption, foster care, and aging concerns.
Her style is direct and compassionate. She uses a strength-based, motivational approach that helps people notice what already works for them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps people can use between appointments to build better coping and communication habits. Janet blends several approaches to meet real-life problems. She commonly uses client-centered techniques to follow each person's goals, cognitive behavioral tools to change troubling thoughts and behaviors, and emotion-focused methods to improve connection and understanding in relationships.
She also draws on dialectical skills and existential ideas when those fit a client's needs. Typical concerns she addresses include depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar mood challenges, and ADHD-related struggles. Additional areas of focus include body image, hoarding, codependency, gender dysphoria, and substance use issues.
Janet aims to help people discover practical ways forward. She works collaboratively to set goals, practice new skills, and reduce the everyday problems that cause distress.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's goals. The therapist reflects what matters to the client and helps them build on their own strengths to solve problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep a problem going and teaches practical strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what they have tried before. Together they decide which methods to prioritize, and that plan can change as therapy progresses to better fit the client's needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and texting are useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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