About Janice
Janice Harbin uses straightforward, person-centered care backed by three decades in mental health. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC who focuses on practical steps people can take when life feels overwhelming. Janice writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person she meets.
She began her career working with adolescents and children and has spent the past 10 years working primarily with adults. Much of her recent work involved helping people with addiction concerns, including participation on a drug court treatment team for three years.
How Janice works
She views addictive behavior as a symptom and looks for the underlying problems that created it. Janice has experience in outpatient mental health settings where referrals to psychiatric services were made when appropriate. She blends problem-solving skills with compassionate listening to address stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and other concerns.
Her approach is practical and aimed at small, doable changes that add up over time. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career stress, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, and family of origin matters.
Outside of work she enjoys being outdoors, biking, and walking. Time with family, including her children and grandchildren, is important to her and informs a grounded, relational style in sessions.
Janice lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Janice works with
The areas below are the ones Janice 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
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care offered online
Janice blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people move forward. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even with difficult thoughts and feelings, which can help with stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adapts strategies over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see visual cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits between commitments. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, more frequent check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life while working through stress, addiction-related issues, relationship concerns, grief, and other challenges.
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