About Janet
Janet Kwantes is a Michigan-licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. Janet writes plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person.
Her work begins by making space for honest conversation. She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental setting where people can name their concerns and try out new ways of coping.
How Janet works
Sessions move at a steady, practical pace so goals feel reachable. Janet uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on client-centered and narrative approaches to honor each person's story and strengths.
Solution-focused techniques are used when people want clear steps and short-term gains. She has supported people through loss, difficult life transitions, and the pressures of caregiving. Janet also helps with issues related to adoption and foster care, abandonment, isolation, and social anxiety.
She works with pregnancy and new-parent challenges, young adult issues, and mood-related struggles. Throughout her practice Janet emphasizes respectful collaboration. She helps people set practical goals, track small changes, and build confidence.
Her style is encouraging and pragmatic, aimed at helping people get unstuck and move forward.
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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Janet uses client-centered methods that focus on the person's perspective and strengths; sessions emphasize listening, validation, and helping people make choices that feel right for them. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to notice thought and behavior patterns, try new responses, and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Narrative work helps people reframe difficult experiences by separating the problem from the person and looking for alternative storylines that support growth.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Janet works together with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, comfort, and day-to-day realities. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for brief updates or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and schedules while focusing on steady progress.
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