About Janice
Janice Ruchlis helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and self-esteem challenges. She also supports those dealing with grief, intimacy and relationship concerns, sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, and career changes.
Background and approach
Janice is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 30 years of experience, and she practices in English for local and international clients. Her style blends practical skills with attention to emotional history.
Sessions are a mix of talking, learning new coping steps, and noticing patterns that keep problems going. She draws on several therapy approaches to match what each person needs rather than following a single method.
Janice has worked across many life stages and with a wide range of concerns. She pays attention to attachment and early relationships while also teaching concrete strategies for stress and mood.
Over three decades she has helped people manage chronic conditions, grief, and the fallout from trauma. Many clients find relief by combining mindfulness practices with behavior-focused tasks.
Janice also uses emotion-focused conversation to help people name and shift painful patterns. She aims to create a straightforward environment where goals are clear and progress is tracked.
To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to availability. Therapy costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Janice often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to help people understand patterns that began in early relationships and how those patterns affect current connections and reactions. This approach helps people notice recurring dynamics and practice different ways of relating. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to break down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps, useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and sleep or eating problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are integrated when people need tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they plan which strategies to try first and regularly check whether the approach is working or needs adjustment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging can fit between work tasks or when shorter, written exchanges feel more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent across busy schedules and different time zones.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English