About Janet
Janet Wise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York with three decades of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship problems, addiction, parenting strain, and related concerns. Her approach is warm and direct, focused on building a steady relationship that fits each person's needs.
Janet works with adults across many stages of life. She draws on practical methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment ideas, and emotionally-focused work.
How Janet works
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with a focus on coping skills people can use between meetings. Her background includes intensive pastoral counseling training through Fordham University School of Religion and Religious Studies. She has provided grief and crisis support in hospital settings, including emergency and intensive care units, and offered pastoral care at a community church in New York.
That experience shaped her work with loss, sudden change, and complex grief reactions. Janet also brings a whole-person perspective. She emphasizes mind, body, and spirit in therapy and integrates movement and breath practices from her experience as a licensed fitness instructor.
This can help people reconnect to daily routines and self-care when life feels overwhelming. She values cultural sensitivity and has taught others about cultural competency. Conversations in sessions are practical, respectful, and tuned to each person's values.
To begin, a short questionnaire and scheduling step match people with her practice style.
Janet lists 9 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care and healing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical skills to reduce symptoms and shift patterns that cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. She collaborates on short-term goals and longer-term changes so people can test what helps and adjust as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options help people make therapy fit real life and stay consistent with care.
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