- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Janice
Dr. Janice Hodge is a licensed counselor in Illinois with 30 years of clinical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are.
Her work focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Her approach centers on building trust and steady collaboration. Sessions emphasize clear communication and problem-solving for parenting concerns and relationship tension.
She helps clients name what feels hard, try manageable changes, and notice what shifts over time.
Background and approach
Janice draws on long experience across mood and anxiety concerns, panic, grief around separation or divorce, and workplace stress. She also supports people dealing with shame, guilt, isolation, and questions about life purpose and self-worth. The aim is to reduce overwhelming feelings and strengthen coping skills.
Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented. Practical tools and gentle reflection are mixed depending on the situation. Parents can expect help with communication strategies and ways to manage daily stressors without adding more pressure.
Her style is steady and encouraging, inviting clients to make small, sustainable changes. She respects that starting therapy is a big step and works to make each session useful. Progress is tracked in ways that fit each person's life and schedule.
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.
Approaches that guide online parenting work
Dr. Hodge uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and strengthen relationships. One common approach focuses on practical coping skills for anxiety and panic, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach emphasizes communication skills for relationship and parenting stress, helping clients practice clear requests, boundaries, and problem-solving so daily interactions become less tense.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that fit your life. Sessions are collaborative so you can try a way of working and adjust it as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy days. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people balance parenting, work, and appointments without extra travel.
Questions people ask about Janice
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting issues, and life changes along with related concerns like panic, loneliness, and workplace stress.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The style is straightforward and collaborative, focusing on trust, clear communication, and practical steps clients can use between sessions.
What background and experience does the therapist have?
She holds 30 years of clinical experience as a licensed counselor and has worked widely with anxiety, mood concerns, relationship issues, and parenting-related stress.
Where is the therapist licensed and practicing?
She is credentialed as an LCPC in Illinois and practices with that licensure in mind.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing 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 together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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