Janice Doan

Janice Doan is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience. She brings a warm, interactive style to sessions and aims to treat people with respect and compassion. Her work emphasizes practical, person-focused conversation rather than labels or judgment.

She has extensive experience supporting survivors of trauma and abuse, including domestic violence, and has worked in this area for over a decade. She also helps people facing depression, anxiety, parenting challenges, ADHD, and other common life stresses.

Janice blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral ideas and dialectical behavior approaches. In practice this means she listens first, then helps people spot patterns in thinking and try small, concrete changes. She also teaches skills for managing strong emotions and for grounding attention in the present moment.

Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs. Janice focuses on building a clear plan that fits daily life, whether the work is coping with grief, navigating separation, improving communication, or reducing panic and worry. She aims to make therapy useful from week to week.

She encourages a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. If someone is ready to begin, she supports them through the first steps and ongoing problem solving.

How Janice’s approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building rapport so people feel heard and respected; it helps when the goal is to clarify values and set personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches small experiments and skills to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills that help when feelings feel overwhelming or impulsive.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Janice will discuss goals and preferences and help decide which methods fit best. She adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant to day-to-day needs.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats Janice currently offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, save travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let someone practice new skills in real time and bring examples from daily life into the session for immediate feedback.