About Janine
Janine Thomas provides support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She helps people who are struggling with motivation, communication problems, caregiving stress, and family of origin issues. Janine encourages practical steps and clear goals so people can move forward at a steady pace.
Janine emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps people identify small, manageable changes. Sessions focus on real-life skills and everyday solutions rather than jargon or abstract theory. Her work draws on client-centered methods that put the person’s experience at the center.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to unpack unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns. Mindfulness and dialectical behavior ideas are used for emotion regulation and tolerating distress. Janine has ten years of professional experience and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential.
Her license is CA LCSW 62891. She practices from California and offers services in English. People who contact Janine can expect collaborative goal-setting and practical tools to try between sessions.
She frames therapy as a team effort and adjusts pace to match each person’s needs. Many clients work on communication, coping with loss, or handling life transitions over several sessions. To begin, she asks prospective clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their timing.
The process is straightforward and designed to connect people with appropriate support quickly.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy centers the person’s concerns and lived experience; in online sessions this means the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to set priorities and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; in remote sessions this often looks like setting small experiments or homework between meetings to practice new skills.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, check what feels helpful, and adjust methods based on the client’s goals and preferences. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills practice, emotion regulation, or exploring deeper patterns.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls approximate in-person conversation and work well for longer sessions and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, support between appointments, or a more gradual way to share thoughts. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and try different ways of working to see what helps most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English