About Janet
Janet Stone-Nielsen is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, and parenting stress. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at helping a worried parent feel heard and understood.
Janet focuses on practical steps people can take. She begins by listening to the person in front of her and learning what matters most. Therapy may include learning new coping skills, understanding patterns that keep problems repeating, and building strategies for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with trauma, especially domestic and sexual abuse, and the problems that can follow such experiences. She also supports people facing grief, career challenges, chronic health concerns, and issues like codependency or caregiver stress. Janet draws on approaches that emphasize the client’s own goals and strengths.
Janet uses Client-Centered methods alongside tools from cognitive behavioral work and trauma-focused therapy. She is familiar with EMDR, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral techniques to address both recent and long-standing problems. Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each person’s readiness.
Janet holds an LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and practices in North Carolina. Her approach is collaborative: she and the person work together to set goals and try strategies that fit daily life. The work is focused on real change people can notice between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building therapy around their goals; online sessions let the therapist listen, reflect, and help clients decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into patterns of thought and behavior and teaches tools to change those patterns; it works well online for learning practical skills and doing exercises between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and help the client choose what fits best. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs and goals evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing or want brief, immediate support between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English