About Janette
Janette Hernandez is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, who uses a person-centered way of working. She focuses on helping people name what feels hard and find practical steps to feel steadier.
Background and approach
Her style is direct and warm, with an emphasis on listening first and then planning next steps together. Janette draws on eight years of clinical experience in California.
She has supported adults and young people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship stress. She also helps people facing addiction, grief, identity concerns, eating and body image worries, and burnout like compassion fatigue.
In sessions she mixes straightforward tools with attention to emotional patterns. That can mean learning skills to manage intense feelings, practicing new ways to communicate, or noticing how past attachment hurts affect current relationships.
She explains techniques in simple terms and practices them with clients during sessions. Janette aims to build a working plan that fits day-to-day life.
That might include short skill-building exercises, mindfulness practices, or steps to address communication and trust. She often focuses on how family of origin issues, codependency, or abandonment fears show up now.
People meet her for help with specific problems and broader life changes. She invites questions and works at the person’s own pace.
The first step is a clear conversation about goals and a plan that feels doable.
How Janette’s approaches translate to online work
Janette commonly uses attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral approaches in session. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice triggers in relationships so they can choose different responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, current challenges, and preferences, then try strategies that fit the person’s life. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan together so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English