Works with
How Janie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, Arizona
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Janie
Janie Shankle is a licensed professional counselor with eleven years of clinical experience in North Carolina. She holds LPC and LCMHC credentials and focuses on helping people who are dealing with loss, trauma, mood struggles, stress, and life transitions. She approaches sessions with respect for each person’s story and emphasizes practical steps toward calmer days.
Janie draws on straightforward, person-centered work that helps people feel heard and understood. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits.
Background and approach
She also brings skills from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Sessions usually focus on what the person wants to change. Janie helps set clear, achievable goals and then breaks those goals into small, manageable steps.
She offers coaching-style guidance when people need help making life shifts, alongside support for grief, addiction, ADHD challenges, and career-related stress. People often come for help with anger, anxiety, depression, or relationship and parenting stress. Janie also supports those facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, end-of-life issues, and family-of-origin wounds.
Her experience includes work around abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and forgiveness and guilt issues. Her style is warm and practical. She listens first, then offers tools a person can try between sessions.
Janie helps people track progress, adjust strategies, and build skills they can use long term.
What Janie works with
Everything Janie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Janie's practice.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Janie lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person’s own strengths. It helps people feel understood and supported while they set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete tools for regulating intense emotions and tolerating distress, which can be helpful for anger and impulsive behavior.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which tools and techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are useful for check-ins, quick coaching, or when writing out thoughts feels clearer. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Janie
What concerns does Janie commonly address?
Janie helps with grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and stress. She also works with anger, addiction, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar, and career or parenting concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is person-centered and practical. She listens closely, helps set small goals, and teaches skills you can use between sessions.
What is her background and experience?
She has eleven years of professional experience and has worked with grief, trauma, and a range of emotional and life challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPC and LCMHC credentials and practices in North Carolina.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Janie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.