About Janet
Janet Nealer is a Maryland clinician who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship strain, and low mood. She draws on 40 years of experience to offer steady, straightforward support. Janet emphasizes each person’s strengths while helping them take practical steps toward feeling better.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats the person, not the label, and talks through problems in plain language. Sessions focus on what is most pressing, whether that is sleep disruptions, anger, parenting strain, or addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Janet blends approaches to match a person's needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections shape current relationships. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Emotionally-focused methods guide people to identify and express feelings that matter. Over decades of work she has supported people with a wide range of concerns, including chronic illness, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, and identity issues. Her background includes both medical training and family therapy experience; she lists MD and LCMFT as her credentials.
Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Janet welcomes international clients and aims to make scheduling straightforward. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules an appointment that fits their needs.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Janet uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in sessions. Attachment-based work helps people understand how past relationships affect current ones and can support work on relationship strain and communication problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage mood.Choosing the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try a method and adjust as needed so the work fits the person's life and concerns.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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