About Janet
Janet Natale is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over three decades of clinical experience. She practices as an LMFT in California and brings a practical, person-focused attitude to therapy. Janet helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and other life challenges.
She uses a somatic-informed lens alongside client-centered care. Sessions attend to both thoughts and bodily experience. Janet combines hands-on listening with tools people can use between appointments.
Background and approach
Her work spans independent practice, school-based settings, and community programs for adults and adolescents. That background gave her wide exposure to emotional disorders, addictive behaviors, and relational struggles. She has also provided therapeutic services connected to foster care and adoption concerns.
Janet favors a strength-based, motivational style. She helps people find the resources they already have and spot what blocks progress. Conversations aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with practical steps for daily life.
Clients can expect clear guidance on coping skills, communication, and managing transitions. Janet pays attention to identity and diversity issues, including LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria. Her work also addresses complex topics like trauma, dissociation, and mood disorders.
Ultimately she frames help as a collaborative process. Together with each person she helps set priorities, build skills, and move toward greater stability and wellbeing.
Approaches that translate to online work
Somatic-informed therapy pays attention to bodily signals and simple practices that help a person track and shift how they feel. Online sessions can guide breathing, movement awareness, and grounding techniques that support trauma, anxiety, and stress management.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship. That approach helps people feel heard and understood while they set their own goals and move at their own pace during remote sessions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down patterns of thought and behavior into manageable steps. In online work CBT tools like thought records, behavioral experiments, and skill-building homework fit well into video or messaging formats for ongoing practice.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose and adjust methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a fixed plan. This lets the work evolve as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, revisit material between sessions, and keep continuity during life changes or travel. Licensed professionals can use these formats to combine talk, somatic practices, and skills training in ways that fit each person's routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English