About Janice
Janice Harbin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years in mental health. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and life changes using straightforward, practical methods. Her work emphasizes listening, collaboration, and slow steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Janice began her career working with children and adolescents and later spent many years supporting adults in outpatient settings. For a decade she worked closely with people facing substance use concerns and participated on a drug court treatment team.
Background and approach
She approaches addiction as a symptom and looks for the underlying issues that keep it going. Her style is calm and person-focused. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered techniques to help people notice what matters and take workable steps forward.
Mindfulness and motivational strategies are also part of her toolkit when they fit a person’s needs. Janice brings practical experience with a wide range of concerns including parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with trauma. She also has experience with adoption and foster care, aging issues, autism, blended family concerns, and family-of-origin topics.
She practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English. Janice enjoys time outdoors, biking, walking, and family life with her children and grandchildren. She offers steady, experienced support for people facing hard seasons.
How evidence-based approaches fit with online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take committed steps even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skill-building to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and direction of work.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Janice will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, adjusting the mix of ACT, CBT, or client-centered work as progress unfolds. The plan evolves based on what is helpful and what a person wants to accomplish.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for conversational sessions and face-to-face feel, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins or short coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other routines while still using the same therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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