- Attachment focus
- Practical tools
- Mindfulness skills
About Janice
Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 30 years of practice in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, and codependency concerns. Janice also supports those coping with trauma, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and changes like career shifts or health struggles.
Her style blends psychodynamic ideas with behavioral tools, mindfulness, and developmental perspectives. Sessions often focus on understanding patterns from early relationships and learning practical skills to manage difficult feelings. Janice values direct conversation, simple strategies, and space to process painful experiences.
Clients can expect work on self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to life context, including caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and sexual diversity such as BDSM and kink. Cultural and national differences are welcomed and explored in therapy.
Janice draws on approaches such as attachment-based methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior therapy skills, emotionally focused work, and mindfulness practices. These tools are used to help people change unhelpful patterns, regulate emotions, and build healthier relationships with themselves and others.
Her practice emphasizes practical steps alongside deeper reflection. Initial sessions focus on identifying priorities and then choosing ways to work that match the person's goals and pace. To begin, readers are invited to follow the platform's matching process and schedule a first appointment.
How specific therapies are used in online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react strongly in relationships and offers ways to build more secure ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides straightforward skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That could mean combining skill-based CBT or DBT tools with attachment-focused conversation and mindfulness practice, based on what helps most.
The original biography does not list which online session formats are offered, so confirm options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life - for example by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, or enabling people to join from a different location when needed. Licensed professionals can use these approaches effectively in remote sessions, and the focus will be on practical steps and emotional understanding that translate to everyday life.
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Experience
30+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Janice help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, codependency, trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues, among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style mixes psychodynamic exploration with behavioral techniques and mindfulness. Sessions balance understanding past patterns with learning concrete skills for day-to-day life.
What is her professional background?
Janice has 30 years of clinical experience working with diverse people and a range of issues including parenting, caregiving stress, and chronic illness.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California and holds the CA LMFT credential.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients from other countries.
What session formats are available?
The therapist's original biography does not specify session formats. Confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with this therapist?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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