About Janie
Janie Shankle is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She brings 11 years of experience to her work and focuses on helping people who are managing grief, trauma, stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Janie centers her approach on listening and building on each person's strengths.
She views each client as the expert on their own story and offers steady support while people sort through painful experiences.
How Janie works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, aimed at small changes that add up over time. Janie also helps with issues such as self-esteem, addictions, attention concerns, and career stress. Her background includes work with grief and end-of-life concerns, and she guides people through mourning, anticipatory loss, and the emotional tasks that follow major change.
She also has experience addressing family of origin issues, codependency, and communication problems that affect daily life. Janie uses a mix of familiar, evidence-based approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what a person brings, and on cognitive-behavioral and dialectical strategies for managing distress and shifting unhelpful patterns.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools are used for practical goal-setting and change. In sessions she aims to create a calm, respectful space where goals are clear and progress is measurable. People come away with concrete tools for coping, clearer priorities, and a plan for next steps.
Janie lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Janie works with
The areas below are the ones Janie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Janie’s Approaches Work in Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to each person; the therapist reflects what is shared and helps people name strengths and priorities. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and gives concrete skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers practical emotion-regulation, distress-tolerance, and interpersonal skills for managing strong feelings and heated moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. She adjusts tools and pacing as progress is made so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill teaching and reflection. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits better into a day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or work between sessions on short timelines. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related routines while keeping focus on goals and practical change.
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