About Janice
Janice McDermott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of clinical experience. She has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings, addiction recovery centers, public and chartered schools, and independent practice. Janice recently retired from supervising new social workers as they completed licensure requirements.
She is also the author of books about healing and mental wellness. Janice focuses on helping people who are dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, and life changes.
Background and approach
She offers practical support for stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem struggles, and coping with addiction. She also works with clients around parenting concerns, career questions, compassion fatigue, and attention challenges such as ADHD. Her approach starts from where the person is now.
Sessions are shaped around immediate needs and realistic steps. Janice aims to help people find their own direction and use their senses and values to guide decisions. Progress and small changes are the goal rather than perfection.
Clients can expect a straightforward conversational style that balances listening with practical suggestions. Janice draws on a range of therapeutic approaches to match each person’s goals. She emphasizes self-empowerment and helping people discover what they already know they need to do.
Based in Mississippi, Janice offers care through multiple online formats. She supports people who want help working through loss, trauma, relationship problems, and questions about life purpose. If someone needs help clarifying next steps, she helps them identify and take those steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to small actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviors to reduce distress, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting the client's own problem-solving to build confidence and self-understanding.The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which approach or combination fits best. That choice is based on the person's goals, comfort level, and what feels useful in early sessions. Janice guides that discussion and adjusts methods as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let someone share thoughts in writing, fit a check-in into a busy day, or keep a conversation going between longer sessions. These options give flexibility so people can make therapy work around their schedules and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Louisiana
- Languages
- English