About Janet
Janet Sohmer is an Ohio licensed professional counselor, LPCC, who brings 25 years of clinical experience to sessions. She focuses on practical tools that help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people feel understood and able to take small steps forward.
Janet uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices to help people handle strong emotions and return to daily life.
How Janet works
She helps people break down overwhelming problems into clear, usable steps. Sessions often include learning skills to reduce panic, handle anger, and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She also works with concerns such as abandonment issues, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin wounds.
Janet offers support for people dealing with grief, life transitions, midlife questioning, and a search for purpose. The focus is on building steady coping tools rather than quick fixes. Over the years she has helped people manage mood disorders, panic attacks, and problems with impulsivity and isolation.
Her approach blends skill teaching with mindful awareness so clients can practice outside sessions. She aims to make therapy practical and realistic for everyday life. Janet keeps language plain and sessions goal-oriented.
She encourages honest conversation about feelings and patterns. The emphasis is on what to try between meetings so progress shows up in daily routines.
Janet lists 3 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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Janet commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness practices. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with concrete actions, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. DBT emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication, which helps with anger, impulsivity, and relationship problems. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness.Choosing the best approach happens together. The therapist and client review current struggles, goals, and what feels manageable. From there they try practical techniques and adjust as needed so the work fits the person’s life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or for those who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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