About Janice
Janice Ricks is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) practicing in Ohio with 11 years of therapy experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and major life changes. Janice uses straightforward, practical methods and aims to create a calm, respectful space for people to talk through problems.
She draws on several proven approaches to tailor work to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior.
How Janice works
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people in identifying values and taking committed steps despite difficult feelings. Client-centered work aims to center the person’s own goals and strengths. Janice has worked with a wide range of concerns including LGBT matters, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar disorder, depression, compassion fatigue, and many family-related stresses.
She also attends to issues such as adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, body image, and codependency. That breadth helps her adapt plans to a person’s life and priorities. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Janice describes therapy as collaborative - she and the person set goals and check progress over time. Her style is patient, practical, and focused on helping people move forward. If someone wants to begin, the process starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on the therapist’s availability.
Janice values the courage it takes to start and supports people as they work toward change.
Janice lists 4 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
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Janice commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when emotions are strong.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Janice works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks progress regularly and adjusts the plan when something isn’t working well.
Online therapy offers a range of practical formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, or schedules that need more flexibility. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or busy lives while keeping therapeutic goals central.
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