About Janet
Janet Wise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, ADHD, and life transitions. Her tone is warm and practical, aimed at people looking for clear, steady support.
She has worked in clinical and community settings for three decades. That experience includes supporting people with chronic illness and those affected by physical and psychological trauma.
Background and approach
She has also provided pastoral grief and crisis counseling in hospitals and community settings, including emergency and intensive care units. Janet draws on several practical approaches in sessions. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to calm the nervous system, and acceptance-based tools to clarify values and goals.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on real, achievable steps clients can use between meetings. She pays attention to cultural and life-stage differences and helps people tailor coping plans to their daily realities. Outside therapy she teaches yoga, Enerchi (a form of Tai Chi), and cardio-fitness, and she brings that movement-informed perspective into her work when helpful.
People who choose Janet typically want a steady, experienced guide who combines talk therapy, goal-setting, and practices for relaxation and focus. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and oriented toward rebuilding stability and finding meaning after loss or crisis.
Approach options you can use in online sessions
Janet commonly blends cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve sleep and focus.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in many cases. ACT helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions that align with those values, which is useful for life transitions, chronic stress, and ongoing mood concerns. Janet treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will discuss which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences during the first sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life while keeping the focus on practical growth and coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English