About Janet
Janet Atkinson is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She offers practical, down-to-earth support for people facing relationship troubles, grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Janet speaks plainly and focuses on what someone needs right now rather than jargon or long explanations.
Janet has 29 years of experience as an LCSW, and she shapes sessions to fit each person. She listens first, then helps set clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on immediate coping skills and steps people can use between meetings. Her approach combines client-centered care with structured methods when helpful. That means she follows the pace a person prefers while bringing in tools to change patterns and manage emotions.
She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical skills to address intense feelings and recurring thoughts. Janet also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques to help people find next steps and stay motivated. This can be useful for anyone trying to rebuild after loss, shift habits, or manage stress from work and life.
She adapts what she offers to match a person's goals and daily routine. People who come to Janet can expect a respectful and compassionate presence. She aims to empower each person to make choices that feel right for them.
Practical steps, steady support, and clear goals are central to her way of working.
How Janet’s approaches translate to online care
Janet uses client-centered care, cognitive behavioral strategies, and dialectical behavior skills in ways that work well online. Client-centered care means conversations start with what matters most to the person and move at their pace; online sessions let that be flexible and paced around daily life. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed over video or messaging. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that are easy to teach, demonstrate, and rehearse during remote sessions.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. Janet works with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan if something does not fit. She will recommend options based on someone’s needs and preferences, and check in regularly to see what is helping.
Online work can be more flexible than in-person care. Video calls let screen sharing and visual tools support skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter touchpoints for coaching, check-ins, or stepping through a skill in the moment. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or daily routines while keeping focus on making steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English