About Janet
Janet Sohmer uses practical, skills-based approaches to help people manage everyday stress and deeper emotional struggles. She is an LPCC with 25 years of experience and focuses on anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and issues that affect self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to small steps that lead to real change.
She helps people cope with life transitions, grief, anger, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Sessions often include tools for managing panic attacks, overwhelming emotions, and mood disturbances.
Background and approach
Janet pays attention to repeated patterns such as codependency, avoidance, and fear of abandonment so clients can make different choices. Janet uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful thoughts. She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
Mindfulness practices are used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Her approach is collaborative. She works with each person to set realistic goals and practices new skills between sessions.
Conversations are direct but compassionate, aimed at helping people feel more capable and less overwhelmed. Janet draws on a long clinical background supporting adults through midlife questions, career stress, and shifts in relationships. She offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions are scheduled to fit each person’s life and needs.
How Janet’s approaches translate to online therapy
Janet commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new, more useful ways of thinking. CBT is practical and often includes homework like tracking moods or trying small behavioral changes between sessions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills can be especially helpful for managing intense feelings, reducing impulsive reactions, and improving relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they review what is working and adjust the plan as needed so the treatment stays relevant to day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face connection and interactive skill coaching. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief support into a busy day or to practice skills between sessions. These flexible options help people maintain steady progress without major travel or schedule disruptions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English