- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- LGBT
About Janice
Janice Ruchlis is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, trauma, addiction, and issues with self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more hopeful. Her style is warm and direct and aimed at parents and individuals juggling many demands.
She combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive and behavioral tools to create clear, do-able plans. Sessions often include learning new skills, practicing them between meetings, and talking through how past experiences shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on emotionally-focused and mindfulness approaches when helpful. Janice has worked in California for decades and brings 30 years of clinical experience to sessions. She has supported people from varied backgrounds and values cultural differences in the therapy process.
Her California LMFT credential is part of her professional background. In therapy she helps parents manage overwhelm and improve communication with children. She also addresses grief, intimacy concerns, sleeping and eating problems, and career or life transitions.
Practical coping strategies and clearer routines are common outcomes people work toward. Janice aims to create a space for steady progress. She helps clients spot repeating patterns and experiment with new ways of relating.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on small, sustainable changes.
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
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Janice lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and emotional reactions; it helps people understand patterns with partners and children and build more stable connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches specific strategies to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness and can be useful for intense emotions and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, goals, and personal preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively and adjust the plan as progress and challenges emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support ongoing coaching, quick check-ins, or emotional grounding between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work, and other life demands while using the approaches described above.
Questions people ask about Janice
What kinds of concerns does Janice address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, sleep and eating issues, intimacy concerns, and many related problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and direct, combining practical skill-building with reflection on past patterns. Sessions aim to be collaborative and action-oriented.
What is her clinical background?
She brings 30 years of experience in clinical practice and has worked with people from diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
What credential and region are listed for this therapist?
She is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, shown as LMFT in her profile, and practices in California.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats does she use?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options.
How are sessions paid for and what about cost?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and the cost varies with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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