About Janel
Janel Longoria is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 16 years of practice. She helps people take the first step toward clearer thinking and more stable days. Janel emphasizes a calm, direct approach that aims for practical change over jargon.
She focuses on struggles like addictions, depression, anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, intimacy-related questions, and the challenges of parenting and caregiving.
How Janel works
Additional areas include bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, codependency, and issues tied to family of origin and attachment. Janel uses straightforward methods to help clients learn new coping skills and shift unhelpful patterns. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral work, acceptance-based strategies, and attachment-focused ideas to guide sessions.
Emotion-focused and skills-based techniques are used when helpful to address intense emotions and communication problems. Sessions are practical and collaborative. The therapist listens, reflects what she hears, and helps set manageable goals.
Skills practice, behavior changes, and clearer communication are common focuses during her work together with clients. People who prefer a direct, experienced counselor may find her style useful. The tone in sessions is nonjudgmental but purposeful.
Janel aims to help people build resilience, improve relationships, and manage life transitions one step at a time.
Janel lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Janel works with
The areas below are the ones Janel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where motivation and meaning matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that cause difficulty and teaching concrete skills to change them. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early connection patterns and how they affect current relationships, which can be useful for intimacy, trust, and family of origin issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adapt them based on what helps most, so therapy becomes a collaborative process rather than a fixed plan.
Online formats offered 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 that needs less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and help fit therapy into busy lives.
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