About Janet
Janet Sohmer is an Ohio licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and problems of daily living. Janet aims to help people take the first steps toward feeling more capable and in control.
She uses clear, practical methods so conversations lead to changes. Sessions are a place to talk about worrying thoughts, hard feelings, and patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Janet helps people notice what keeps problems going and practices small shifts that add up. Her approach includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness tools. That mix lets her address things like panic attacks, mood swings, low self-esteem, and trouble managing anger.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, and difficult life transitions. Janet draws on long experience to match strategies to each person’s needs. She encourages skill-building for communication, setting boundaries, and coping with strong emotions.
The work is collaborative and paced to what the person can handle. Janet offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. People can expect straightforward guidance, practical exercises, and follow-up ideas to practice between meetings.
How Janet’s Approaches Work Online
Janet uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people find and change thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on practical steps like tracking triggers and testing new responses to reduce panic, worry, and low mood.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to strengthen emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques are useful for handling intense feelings, improving communication, and reducing impulsive reactions.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Janet will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions let people practice skills while talking face to face. Phone sessions can fit a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer ongoing check-ins and brief skill coaching between longer sessions. These options help people shape therapy around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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