Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
How Janice works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Janice
Janice Ruchlis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and grief. She also supports those coping with trauma, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and self‑esteem struggles. Janice draws on 30 years of clinical experience in California and works with people from diverse backgrounds.
Her style blends practical behavioral tools with attention to emotional patterns and life history. She focuses on helping clients identify unhelpful thoughts and reactions, and then learn concrete skills to respond differently.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with room to talk about deeper life events when needed. Janice uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change thinking and behavior, Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion regulation, and Attachment‑Based ideas to track how relationships shape feelings. She also brings mindfulness and emotionally focused techniques into sessions when they fit a person's needs.
Over three decades she has supported people facing career changes, parenting stress, ADHD, chronic illness, and grief after losses. She pays attention to identity issues, including LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care topics, and body image struggles. Therapy can include short skill sessions or longer work on past hurts.
Janice aims to make therapy practical and understandable, helping people build new habits that feel doable in daily life.
What Janice works with
Everything Janice lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Janice's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Janice lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Janice commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, anger, and low mood. She also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Attachment‑based ideas are used to look at how relationship patterns influence reactions and to build healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and which methods feel most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skill practice, emotional processing, or both, and adapt the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text‑based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video works well for therapy that needs visual connection. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check‑in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support quick skills practice, brief coaching, or ongoing check‑ins between scheduled sessions.
Questions people ask about Janice
What concerns can be addressed in sessions?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and career challenges, and related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Janice mixes straightforward skill teaching with attention to emotions and life story. Sessions are conversational and focus on practical steps you can use between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 30 years of experience working with people from varied backgrounds and life situations.
What credentials and location are listed?
Janice is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - based in California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text‑based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.