About Janet
Janet Guthrie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Connecticut with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and mood concerns. Janet often supports those coping with trauma, grief, parenting strain, and relationship or intimacy-related problems.
Her sessions are warm and interactive. She aims to listen closely and treat people with respect and compassion. Janet adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all script.
How Janet works
Janet combines practical, evidence-based tools with attention to personal history. She draws from client-centered methods to keep the person's goals central. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and DBT skills to manage intense emotions.
Mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolkit. These approaches help with focus, readiness for change, and day-to-day coping. Janet balances present-focused skills with psychodynamic ideas about longstanding patterns when that helps the work.
People come to her for help managing life changes, addictive behavior, anger, low self-esteem, and caregiving stress. She also supports those dealing with attachment and abandonment concerns or complicated family problems. Conversations move at a pace that fits each person’s comfort and goals.
Janet lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Janet uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thinking and behavior patterns that get in the way. CBT is practical and skill-focused, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and habit change. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills when emotions feel overwhelming.Mindfulness and client-centered methods are woven into her work to keep sessions grounded in the person’s priorities. Finding the right approach is collaborative - the therapist and client discuss goals, try tools, and adjust the plan as needed to fit the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing reminders, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around daily life and to practice skills between sessions.
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