About Janice
Janice Ruchlis helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, grief, or relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports people coping with parenting struggles, sleep or eating problems, ADHD, and life changes. Janice is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with three decades of clinical experience.
She keeps sessions practical and approachable. Conversations focus on identifying patterns, building skills, and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
How Janice works
Janice blends approaches to match each person's needs rather than using one fixed method. In her work she draws on attachment ideas to look at how past bonds affect present relationships. She regularly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and emotion-focused ideas are woven in to help people calm strong feelings and name what matters to them. Janice has worked across many life stages and with people from different nationalities. She pays attention to cultural differences and the realities people bring to sessions.
Her aim is to create a steady, thoughtful space where clients can try new ways of coping. Practical concerns are part of the plan. Janice helps people set small goals, practice new skills between meetings, and track progress over time.
She welcomes conversations about specific struggles like abandonment, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, kink and sexual concerns, or codependency.
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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversations and exercises to identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through targeted exercises and home practice, which can be assigned and reviewed in video or messaging formats.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust the plan as progress is observed. That way clients help shape what feels most useful for them.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, homework discussion, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life demands.
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