Working as a therapist for over 20 years, Janet has encountered the full range of needs, abilities, levels of committment, and issues. Thanks to her job choices, she has explored and utilized many different settings, stragegies, and formats to assist people work through their stuck and often painful places. She doesn't view people as "sick" although she often deals with mental health diagnosis and issues. She collaborates with insurance companies, utilization review comapnies, and referring sources but maintains a non-medical view of the human experience. She sees everyone as humans striving to grow as they put one foot in front of the other in this journey called life. She deliberately uses the term "we" rather than "I" and "you". Her experience has led her to conclude that there is no one size fits all, rather, everyone is an individual with their own particular set of strengths, weaknesses, and ways of approaching life. No one is without assets and life knowledge, no matter what it may feel like at the moment.
She believes that to truely help you she must be your equal. It is her intent to partner with you as your issues are explored and problem solving strategies are developed. To do this she recognizes she must listen and be open to different perspectives and beliefs. She must respect you. She must have faith in you and in your ultimate ability to succeed. And even beyond that she passionately believes in your ability to soar, not according to anyone else's terms, just yours.
She practices what she calls "wellness" therapy. Her views, approaches, and itervention strategies are culled from many disciplines. In addition to several others, she utilizes Cognitive BehavioraI, Transpersonal, Recovery Model, Mindfulness, Rogerian, and Adlerian theoretical bases. Truely eclectic, she has found this necessary when working with a myriad of persons. She uses the "new", "popular", and "cutting edge" approachs but doesn't believe any one is a panacea and keeps in mind that one theory develops and evolves from something that came before it: psychology and the helping professions are like building blocks, one built upon another. To be useful she recognizes that, although utilizing scientific principles and practices to develop and maintain client-centered competency, the practices of therapy, counseling, and faciitation are arts. Art that is creative, flowing, ever changing, evolving, and developing. They represent the intertwining of multiple dynamics comparable to both complex and innovative acrhitecture as well as to the intricate dances of two or more spirits.
She believes that to truely help you she must be your equal. It is her intent to partner with you as your issues are explored and problem solving strategies are developed. To do this she recognizes she must listen and be open to different perspectives and beliefs. She must respect you. She must have faith in you and in your ultimate ability to succeed. And even beyond that she passionately believes in your ability to soar, not according to anyone else's terms, just yours.
She practices what she calls "wellness" therapy. Her views, approaches, and itervention strategies are culled from many disciplines. In addition to several others, she utilizes Cognitive BehavioraI, Transpersonal, Recovery Model, Mindfulness, Rogerian, and Adlerian theoretical bases. Truely eclectic, she has found this necessary when working with a myriad of persons. She uses the "new", "popular", and "cutting edge" approachs but doesn't believe any one is a panacea and keeps in mind that one theory develops and evolves from something that came before it: psychology and the helping professions are like building blocks, one built upon another. To be useful she recognizes that, although utilizing scientific principles and practices to develop and maintain client-centered competency, the practices of therapy, counseling, and faciitation are arts. Art that is creative, flowing, ever changing, evolving, and developing. They represent the intertwining of multiple dynamics comparable to both complex and innovative acrhitecture as well as to the intricate dances of two or more spirits.