About Janice
Janice McDermott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of practice. She welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or ready to make a change. Janice writes plainly and focuses on helping people find next steps they can actually use in daily life.
She has worked in outpatient and inpatient mental health centers, addiction recovery programs, public and chartered schools, and independent practice. Janice also supervised new social workers as they pursued licensure.
Background and approach
Her long experience means she has supported many kinds of concerns over the years. Janice helps people begin where they are. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs that day.
She listens for the parts of a person that already know what to do and helps bring those parts forward into action. Her work draws on body-centered or somatic ideas alongside therapies that focus on values, thoughts, and emotions. Janice uses practical exercises to help clients notice sensations, rethink unhelpful thoughts, and try small changes between sessions.
She is also an author of books about healing and managing thoughts, and she encourages self-empowerment rather than perfection. The aim is steady progress and clearer choices for handling stress, grief, relationship strain, addiction, work problems, and other life transitions.
How somatic and values-based methods work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and movement to help people notice where stress or tension lives in the body. Online sessions use guided awareness and simple grounding exercises to help clients track sensations and responses between talks.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on what matters most to each person. It helps clarify values, accept difficult feelings without fighting them, and take small steps toward meaningful goals. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, non-judgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports their self-discovery.
Finding the right blend of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then try techniques together and adjust as needed. Collaboration helps tailor sessions to mood, energy, and practical life demands.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines, practice techniques in real settings, and stay connected between meetings when needed.
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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