About Janet
Janet Langtry is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with 27 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and family conflicts. Her approach is down-to-earth and respectful, aimed at making the first steps toward change feel manageable.
She listens carefully and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope with day-to-day pressure and painful events. Janet works with people dealing with parenting challenges, relationship strain, career stresses, anger, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her practice also addresses concerns such as ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, and blended family dynamics. She supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, fertility struggles, and bereavement. The goal is to find realistic strategies that fit each person’s life.
Janet explains options clearly and helps people set achievable goals. She combines coaching-style guidance with therapeutic work to boost coping skills and decision making. Conversations are tailored, straightforward, and focused on steps clients can try between sessions.
People choose her for practical support during difficult times and for guidance through complex family or health-related challenges. She encourages honest talk, steady progress, and a partnership in working toward better day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques can be applied effectively online. One common approach focuses on building coping skills and problem-solving. That method helps people manage anxiety, stress, and everyday challenges by teaching practical steps and routines to try between sessions.Another helpful approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences and grief through paced conversation and guided reflection. This approach supports recovery from trauma, loss, and relationship wounds by helping people make sense of what happened and identify manageable next steps.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to goals, and adjust methods as sessions progress. Together they decide what feels most useful and make changes when needed.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English