About Janice
Janice Stidman is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of practice in Mississippi. She focuses on practical, straightforward help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She explains things plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for worried parents reading on a phone.
Janice offers an approach that combines active skill-building with emotional processing. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts.
How Janice works
She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice values and take small steps toward them. In sessions she pays attention to relationship and communication patterns. That includes support around parenting challenges, grief, and career stress.
She also addresses concerns such as anger, ADHD, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue in clear, goal-oriented work. Her background brings trauma-informed practices into the room. One example is using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when past events continue to cause distress.
Janice pairs that with dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and coping during difficult moments. People can expect a mix of talking, practical exercises, and short at-home practices. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Janice aims to help each person build tools they can use between sessions and beyond.
Janice lists 8 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Janice uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; this is practical work that often includes small experiments and at-home practice to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. She also relies on acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify what matters to a person and to support committed steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. When trauma keeps affecting daily life she may use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to reduce the intensity of troubling memories and reactions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist assesses needs, listens to goals, and suggests methods that match a person's situation and preferences. Over time the plan can shift based on what helps most, and clients are encouraged to give feedback about pace and focus.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises that need visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, coaching between sessions, or ongoing support without scheduling a full video meeting.
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