About Janice
Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with thirty years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with clients facing depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Her style is straightforward and warm.
She aims to make therapy feel practical and useful for everyday life. Janice blends several methods in sessions. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and how early connections shape current struggles.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to uncover the thinking habits that feed anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy tools get introduced when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. She also incorporates emotionally-focused techniques to help people express and process painful feelings.
Mindfulness practices are used to slow down racing thoughts and increase present-moment awareness. Sessions often include short exercises, reflection, and concrete steps to try between meetings. Janice has worked with people across many life stages and cultural backgrounds and values differences in identity and experience.
She describes her work as a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide each step. Her California-based practice is oriented toward practical coping skills alongside deeper exploration. People pick Janice for support with parenting stress, career transitions, ADHD-related challenges, relationship strains, and chronic health or caregiving burdens.
She helps clients build clearer coping plans, practice new behaviors, and find more stable emotional ground over time.
Approach-focused online therapy for relationships and emotions
Janice uses attachment-based ideas to explore how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. This approach helps people identify repeating patterns in how they relate to others and develop new ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method that looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression through practical exercises.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Janice works with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps ensure sessions focus on what matters most to the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full-session conversations and exercises, phone calls are a lower-bandwidth alternative, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets people send notes or reflections between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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