About Janet
Janet Craig is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, relationship concerns, trauma, and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder. She works with parents dealing with teen years, people facing life transitions, and those coping with chronic illness, caregiving strain, or loss.
Janet brings a calm, practical presence and listens carefully to each person's story. Janet combines a gentle, person-centered style with focused tools to meet goals people set for themselves.
How Janet works
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help clients notice what matters and move toward it. Solution-focused techniques are used to build small, realistic steps that can create change between sessions. Her background includes work in child welfare, hospice, and school settings.
That mix gives her experience with end-of-life concerns, bereavement, blended family issues, and family communication problems. Janet also supports people facing loneliness, body image struggles, and life-purpose questions. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented.
Janet helps people sort out feelings, identify unhelpful patterns, and try practical strategies at a manageable pace. She encourages self-compassion and steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who choose Janet often value a warm, accepting therapist who expects collaboration.
She respects each person’s values and helps them name priorities, set doable goals, and build skills for coping with everyday stress and major life changes.
Janet lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Janet works with
The areas below are the ones Janet selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify values and take committed action toward what matters. It can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the person leads and the therapist reflects and supports growth; this works well for building self-esteem and processing difficult emotions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can aid sleep problems, stress, and anger. Choosing the best approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That collaborative process includes checking progress and adjusting methods so work between sessions feels practical and relevant. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls let people see facial cues and have fuller conversations, while phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, problem-solving between meetings, or shorter sessions when scheduling is tight. These formats increase flexibility and help people access support from wherever they are in Illinois.Start online instead of waiting
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