About Janice
Janice Susman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of professional experience in California. She helps people who feel stuck by listening closely and offering steady support. Janice focuses on practical steps people can take to feel better and move forward.
She works with stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Relationship struggles and communication problems are also a common focus. Janice pays attention to the everyday parts of life that make change hard, like motivation and confidence.
How Janice works
Her approach treats the client as the expert on their own story. She helps people notice strengths they already have and use those strengths to overcome challenges. Janice encourages small, doable changes that add up over time.
People often come to her for help with divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, or feelings of isolation and loneliness. She also supports those wrestling with life purpose, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and social phobia. Janice uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a method that focuses on changing patterns of thought and behavior to ease symptoms.
Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with time spent on practical tools people can use between meetings. Her style is calm, respectful, and rooted in real-life solutions.
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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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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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
Using CBT and online care to manage thoughts and behavior
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. Janice uses CBT to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and stress-related problems.Her work is collaborative - she helps clients pick approaches that match their goals and daily life. Together they set clear aims, try practical exercises, and review what helps most. Finding the right fit is an ongoing conversation that adapts as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more convenient. Video works well when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping tools, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules while keeping the same therapeutic focus and techniques used in person.
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