Janet Jacobs is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles.
01About Janet
Janet Jacobs is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She offers steady support for everyday worries like sleep problems, low confidence, and motivation. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
Janet believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into the work. She listens for those strengths and helps people use them to tackle challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings to build momentum. With 28 years of experience, Janet has worked with a broad range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and issues around sexual orientation and intimacy. She also supports people facing life-stage transitions, chronic health struggles, caregiver stress, and work-related burnout or compassion fatigue.
Her style is collaborative and practical. Janet helps clients sort priorities, practice new ways of responding, and build better daily routines for sleep, eating, and emotional balance. She also assists people dealing with communication problems, commitment or abandonment worries, and complicated separations.
Janet practices in Wisconsin as an LPC, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. She uses evidence-based techniques to guide the work and adapts them to each person’s goals. For people seeking steady, experience-based help with real life problems, she offers a calm, straightforward presence in therapy.
02Credentials
- LPC (Wisconsin)
- License 2808-125 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1750012423 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Janet lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
How Janet Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online
Janet draws on straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on behavior change and coping skills. One approach emphasizes building routines and practical habits to improve sleep, eating, and daily structure; this helps with depression, anxiety, and low motivation by creating steady, manageable steps. Another common method teaches short skills for managing strong emotions and stress, such as paced breathing, scheduling, and simple cognitive shifts to interrupt negative thinking patterns.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Janet will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together she and the client pick techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made, so the plan stays practical and relevant to everyday life.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a screen-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, brief coaching, or when clients want written reflections to review later. These options give flexibility so therapy can match real life routines and needs.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem, and many daily life struggles.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear steps clients can try between sessions and building on each person’s strengths.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 28 years of professional experience to her practice, working across a wide range of mental health and life concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC, a Licensed Professional Counselor, practicing in Wisconsin.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she can work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
She meets with clients by video call, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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