- Years in practice
- 35
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Janice
Janice Gillmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 35 years of experience helping people navigate parenting concerns and related stresses. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and strengthen relationships while supporting parents who are juggling many demands. Her approach is warm and steady, aimed at everyday changes that make life feel more manageable.
Janice combines short-term tools with deeper, long-term work. She uses emotion-focused and trauma-informed ways of working to help people understand patterns that keep causing pain.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help with stress, panic, and self-regulation. Her background spans both personal and public settings. Over three decades she has supported people through grief, addiction recovery, separation and divorce, and healing from past abuse.
That experience informs clear, realistic steps she offers clients facing hard choices and big transitions. Janice also brings a psycho-spiritual perspective and offers meditation and yoga resources on request. She respects varied spiritual paths and helps clients connect inner values with daily decisions.
This can help with meaning, purpose, and self-compassion. Sessions address communication, attachment concerns, shame and guilt, and struggles like process addictions and social anxiety. Janice helps people set goals, practice new skills, and track progress so change feels tangible and steady.
What Janice works with
Everything Janice lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Janice helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Janice lists
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Janice’s approach adapts to online therapy
Janice often uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help clients name and shift unhelpful interaction patterns and improve closeness. EFT focuses on emotions and relationship moments, which can help with parenting conflicts and intimacy-related concerns.She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple awareness and breathing practices that reduce anxiety and anger. These practices are taught in short exercises that can be used between sessions to manage panic or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janice will listen to your goals and try different techniques, then adjust the plan based on what helps most. She collaborates with people to combine practical steps and deeper reflection so progress is steady and meaningful.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you practice communication and get real-time coaching. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or tracking skills between sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into parenting routines and daily life.
Questions people ask about Janice
What parenting and family concerns are addressed?
Janice helps with parenting stress, communication problems, attachment issues, and conflicts that affect family life. She also supports work on boundaries, separation and divorce, and co-parenting strain.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style blends emotionally-focused work with mindfulness and trauma-informed techniques. Sessions mix practical tools, emotional exploration, and gentle skill practice.
How much experience does she have?
She has 35 years in the mental health field, working in both personal and public settings across a wide range of concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the need.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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