About Janice
Janice Stidman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or major life changes. She brings a thoughtful, patient approach to each person who reaches out.
Janice aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. She helps clients notice unhelpful patterns and build small, doable skills to cope. Conversations often include practicing new ways to respond to strong emotions and testing them between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work is informed by trauma-aware care and an affirming stance toward diverse identities. Janice supports people dealing with relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, workplace stress, and questions about life purpose. She also works with mood disorders, ADHD, and issues such as shame, abandonment, or body image concerns.
In therapy she uses a mix of approaches like cognitive behavior strategies, mindfulness, emotion-focused methods, and trauma processing tools. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on realistic steps for change. Janice encourages clear communication and practical problem-solving alongside emotional healing.
People who prefer a calm, steady clinician will likely find her style helpful. She emphasizes collaboration, making room for each person's values and goals. The practice supports video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It uses mindfulness and action planning to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity, which can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical and skill-focused, useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and everyday stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-informed method that supports processing distressing memories and reducing their grip on daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Janice will discuss which methods make sense for the issue at hand and adapt techniques to fit each person's goals and comfort level. Clients and therapist work together to try strategies and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or reflect between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines while keeping the work focused on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English