About Janet
Janet Nealer is a Maryland-based clinician with 40 years of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship concerns. She emphasizes strengths and respects each person's experience. Her approach aims to help people take practical steps toward feeling better and more connected.
Janet listens in a way that centers the client. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and works alongside them.
How Janet works
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and addressing past hurts that affect daily life. Her work draws on several approaches, including attachment-based methods that look at how relationships shape feelings, emotion-focused techniques for handling painful emotions, and cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
These approaches are used to address self-esteem, sleeping problems, addiction-related concerns, and parenting stress among other issues. Janet also offers support around more specific challenges such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, dissociation, and domestic violence. She helps people think through career worries, commitment and control issues, and blended family or divorce-related stresses.
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. Janet uses a collaborative style and helps people find practical, sustainable changes that fit their life and goals.
Janet lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions; online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood and seen, which can be done over video or phone to keep conversations focused and personal. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear exercises and goal-setting that translate well to remote sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to try attachment-focused work, emotion-focused tools, CBT exercises, or a mix of methods based on progress and comfort.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into a busy life.
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