How Janine works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Licensed in
- Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, New Jersey
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Janine
Janine Gonzalez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage strong feelings and life changes. She draws on nearly three decades of experience to support people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, and trauma. She centers sessions on the person's goals and strengths.
Conversations aim to clarify what matters most, build coping steps, and reduce patterns that cause repeated upset. Janine emphasizes simple, tangible tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with caregiving stress, family of origin concerns, communication problems, and end-of-life issues. She also helps people struggling with attachment wounds, guilt and shame, obsessive habits, and panic symptoms. These areas often overlap, and she works to address them in a straightforward way.
Janine blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with solution-focused techniques. Sessions typically involve identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new responses, and setting small goals to track progress. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding reasons to change.
She offers sessions from Florida and communicates in English. Therapy is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule a first session.
What Janine works with
Everything Janine lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Janine's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
Approaches Janine lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- 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.
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on values-driven actions that matter. ACT can help when anger, anxiety, or grief keep someone from living the life they want.Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person's experience. The therapist listens deeply and reflects back what matters most so people can find their own answers and make steady changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches concrete strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and practice new responses for panic, depression, or obsessive thoughts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and build new habits over time.
Questions people ask about Janine
What kinds of concerns does Janine help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, anger, and compassion fatigue, plus related issues like guilt, attachment wounds, panic, and caregiving stress.
What is her style of therapy?
Janine uses a person-centered, practical approach. She focuses on clear goals, skill building, and small steps people can use between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 28 years of clinical experience working with people who face complex emotional and life challenges.
What credentials and region are associated with this therapist?
She holds the credentials LCSW and CSW and practices from Florida.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Appointments can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are costs structured for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.