About Janet
Janet Natale is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 31 years of clinical experience. She draws on long experience in independent practice, school settings, and community programs to help people untangle stressful times and move toward clearer choices. Her work often focuses on problems like anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship strain.
She also supports people facing career stresses, parenting challenges, bipolar mood concerns, and life transitions.
How Janet works
Janet brings attention to issues such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, blended family dynamics, and body image worries. Janet’s style is grounded and practical. She uses Client-Centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to each person.
She adds Cognitive Behavioral and Dialectical Behavior techniques to teach coping tools and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Emotionally-Focused and Existential ideas help people find meaning and reconnect with what matters. Sessions are collaborative and focused on skills you can use between appointments.
Janet helps people identify obstacles, practice new ways of relating, and set manageable goals. Her approach emphasizes personal strengths and motivation as the starting point for change. People who reach out can expect straightforward talk, clear steps, and steady support.
Janet encourages curiosity and effort rather than perfection. She aims to help clients build practical skills and greater emotional balance over time.
Janet lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 31 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Janet uses Client-Centered Therapy to put the client's experience at the center of the work. That approach means listening closely, reflecting what matters, and helping people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and learning practical skills to change behavior and reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can be useful for strong mood swings or intense emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Janet works together with each person to decide which ideas and techniques fit their goals and daily life. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so practical skills and emotional insight match what the client needs most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people work face to face when that helps; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging support brief touchpoints, homework check-ins, or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving duties while still using the same therapeutic approaches.
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