About Janet
Janet Kuykendall is a licensed mental health counselor who practices in Florida and brings 12 years of experience to her work. She uses straightforward, person-focused methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Janet emphasizes practical steps and clear support during hard moments.
She aims to meet people where they are and build on strengths they already have. Sessions focus on everyday problems like trouble sleeping, feeling overwhelmed, low self-esteem, or difficulty managing emotions.
Background and approach
Janet listens, asks questions, and helps clients set small, achievable goals. Her approach draws on several well-known methods such as client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness tools. These are used in simple ways - for example noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing calming techniques, and trying new behaviors between visits.
Janet also uses motivational interviewing to support change and narrative work to help people reframe their stories. The therapist has experience helping with relationship strains, family conflict, parenting stress, grief, trauma and addiction concerns. She also supports people navigating career transitions, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and the effects of aging or caregiving stress.
Janet values clear communication and practical strategies that fit each person's life. Clients typically find the work collaborative and goal-oriented. Janet encourages small steps and tracks progress over time.
Her style is steady and respectful, aimed at helping people regain a sense of control and move forward.
How Janet’s approaches translate to online work
Janet uses client-centered conversation to focus on what matters most to each person. That means she asks about your goals, listens closely, and shapes sessions around your priorities to build trust and momentum. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to help spot unhelpful thinking and then try different actions to change feelings and behavior; this approach often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Janet treats therapy as a collaborative effort and will work with each client to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging helps track progress between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of working until the best fit is found.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Idaho
- Languages
- English