About Janie
Janie Shankle is a licensed counselor in North Carolina with eleven years of clinical experience. She holds the LPC designation and the LCMHC credential and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, grief, trauma, and life changes. Janie aims to make starting therapy straightforward and supportive for worried parents and adults.
She believes clients know their own story and brings a respectful, listening-first stance to each session. Janie uses practical tools to address overwhelming feelings and recurrent stress.
Background and approach
Conversations often include looking at thoughts, behaviors, and small steps that can change patterns over time. Her work commonly includes strategies from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral approaches. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and solution-focused techniques when those fit a person's goals.
Sessions mix talking, skill-building, and short experiments to see what helps in daily life. Janie has experience with a broad set of concerns, including trauma and abuse, addiction, parenting stress, chronic illness, and grief. She also supports people coping with career shifts, relationship strain, and challenges tied to family of origin or abandonment.
Therapy with Janie is collaborative and paced to fit each person. She uses clear explanations and practical homework when useful. The goal is to reduce immediate distress and build skills that last beyond sessions.
Approach and online care for anxiety and related concerns
Client-centered therapy puts the person at the center of the work. It means the therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and supports each person in finding their own solutions. This style helps when someone needs to feel heard and gain confidence in their decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms over time. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship stressors in ways that reduce crisis frequency.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janie will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans as needed. This collaborative process helps identify which tools feel useful and which need changing.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video is useful for fuller conversations and skill coaching, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, chat and messaging work well for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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