About Janice
Janice Gillmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 35 years of experience to conversations about stress and anxiety. She focuses on helping people find steadiness when life feels overwhelming and guides practical steps toward feeling more capable. Her manner is warm and steady, aimed at helping people make choices that fit their values and goals.
She uses a mix of approaches drawn from emotion-focused work, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, trauma-focused methods, and Internal Family Systems.
Background and approach
Sessions often include helping clients notice emotional patterns, slow down with breathing or grounding, and name the hard feelings that get in the way. Janice blends insight with practical tools so people can try new ways of coping between visits. Janice has a Master’s degree in counseling and human development and is licensed as an LPC in Virginia.
Over three decades she has worked in both personal and public settings and helped people with depression, relationship strain, trauma, addiction concerns, and grief. She also supports people navigating parenting stress, career transitions, and questions about life purpose. She describes her work as psycho-spiritual in orientation and supports clients who want to include spiritual growth in therapy.
Janice can share practices such as meditation or yoga resources when that fits a person’s goals and values. People who choose her typically want a therapist who combines emotional understanding with practical skills. She aims to help clients feel more grounded, connected to their priorities, and able to move forward after hard moments.
Approach and online sessions that fit your life
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions that shape reactions in relationships. It is useful for anyone who wants clearer emotional connection and less reactivity. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve focus; it can help with anxiety, stress, and panic symptoms. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on reducing the hold past injuries have on daily life through paced, targeted work that addresses traumatic memories and their effects.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose which methods to try based on a person’s needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative planning makes it easier to adjust the work if something does not feel like a good fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between sessions. These options let people keep therapy flexible while still using the same therapeutic approaches discussed above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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