About Janel
Janel Longoria is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with addictions, relationship problems, trauma, depression, anxiety, and major life changes. Her work tends to be straightforward and practical, with attention to what matters most in the client's daily life.
She builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they really feel. Sessions center on clear goals and small, manageable steps.
Background and approach
Janel uses approaches that encourage acceptance, skills for handling emotions, and attention to how past relationships affect present ones. Her background includes work with mood disorders, stress and burnout, ADHD, intimacy and sexual-culture concerns, and caregiver strain. She also supports people facing family-of-origin issues, divorce and separation, substance use, and grief connected to health challenges.
She draws on a mix of evidence-based techniques to match each person's needs. Janel combines methods like cognitive behavioral strategies, emotion-focused work, and attachment-informed perspectives. That helps people reduce unhelpful patterns, strengthen important relationships, and build day-to-day coping skills.
She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help clients live by their values even when things are hard. People who choose her often want clear tools and a collaborative, down-to-earth style. She helps with planning next steps, practicing new skills between sessions, and checking progress over time.
The focus is on steady, realistic change rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to change patterns that keep problems going; this can help with mood, stress, and addiction-related behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating and communicating.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the first few sessions. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people use visual cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain steady work on goals around busy schedules and changing life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English