About Janet
Janet Hardin is a licensed clinical social worker who brings ten years of practice in Arizona to her work with adults. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and mood disorders. Janet emphasizes clear, practical steps and steady support rather than jargon or quick fixes.
Her approach centers on building self-compassion and better communication. She helps clients notice patterns that cause pain and develop small, useful changes. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and talking through difficult feelings in a calm way.
Background and approach
Janet has experience supporting people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, and major life transitions like midlife shifts and grief. She also addresses intimacy concerns, addiction-related struggles, and the fallout of trauma and abuse. Multicultural concerns and the emotional impact of aging are included in her focus areas.
She uses a mix of methods to match a person's needs, including acceptance-based and cognitive approaches as well as client-centered work and hypnotherapy when appropriate. Conversations are collaborative - the person and Janet decide what to try and when to adjust. Her style is steady and practical.
She aims to help people regain a sense of control, improve relationships, and reduce overwhelming emotions. Janet works in English and connects with people across a wide range of life stages and stressors.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Janet commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as part of online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing what matters, accepting difficult thoughts, and taking values-driven actions to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on client-centered therapy principles, which prioritize the person's experience and aim to create a respectful, empathetic space for exploration. These approaches are described and tried collaboratively so the person and therapist decide together which tools feel most helpful for the issue at hand.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English