Janet Lengsfelder

Janet draws on practical methods to help clients manage anxiety, grief, relationship stress, parenting strain, and other life challenges. She began her career as a nurse and later trained in psychotherapy to support emotional as well as physical healing.

That combination shaped her belief that people do best when a consistent, knowledgeable helper is beside them during recovery and change. Janet uses that perspective to guide conversations and set realistic goals.

Janet’s work focuses on helping people recognize recurring life patterns and strengthen their sense of self. She uses talk, reflection, and simple exercises to reduce panic, reframe catastrophic thinking, and make distress more manageable.

The aim is steadier moods and clearer choices, not quick fixes. Her approach blends attachment-focused ideas with client-centered listening and emotionally-focused techniques.

She also uses elements of the Gottman Method and mindfulness to address communication problems, intimacy issues, and persistent worry. Sessions tend to be calm, practical, and goal-oriented.

Janet helps people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, career transitions, and family-of-origin issues. She works with those coping with cancer, first responder stress, and the complicated feelings that follow divorce and loss.

Located in California, Janet offers care in English and frames therapy as a partnership. She encourages clients to take manageable steps toward living more fully and to use setbacks as fuel for growth.