About Janet
Janet Natale is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with three decades of clinical experience in California. She draws on long work in independent practice, schools, and community programs to guide people through hard moments.
Background and approach
Her style is direct and encouraging, with a focus on practical steps and steady support. Clients can expect a calm, goal-oriented approach that values each person’s strengths.
Sessions focus on identifying obstacles, building new skills, and creating realistic plans for change. The tone is respectful and down-to-earth, not overly clinical.
Janet uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused work to address mood, relationships, and stress.
When helpful, she adds strategies from dialectical behavior and existential perspectives to handle intense emotions and life transitions. She has long experience addressing concerns such as anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and grief, relationship difficulties, parenting stress, ADHD, and issues related to identity and sexual orientation.
Additional interests include adoption and foster care, aging concerns, blended family dynamics, and body image. Janet aims to work collaboratively so people feel understood and able to try new things between sessions.
Her goal is to help people build reliable skills that fit their daily life and move toward clearer goals. If someone prefers to work remotely, Janet offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Janet’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Janet often uses client-centered therapy, which centers on listening and responding to each person's concerns. This approach helps people feel heard and guides conversations toward their own priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.Those methods are adapted collaboratively. Janet will talk with clients about goals, try techniques, and check what helps. Together they decide which approaches to emphasize and adjust the plan as needs change, so the work fits the person's life and preferences.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video calls let clients read facial expressions and practice new interaction skills in real time. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, progress notes between sessions, or a way to keep momentum during a difficult week.
These options let people try different ways of working and find what feels most practical. Licensed professionals can combine formats as needed so the therapy stays flexible and usable while people work toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English