- Years in practice
- 35
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Grief
About Janet
Janet Craig is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, and relationship concerns. She offers practical support for parents, including those facing the ups and downs of raising teenagers. Her work also addresses mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, as well as life changes that feel overwhelming.
Janet keeps sessions straightforward and collaborative. She listens without judgment and helps clients set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on small, usable steps that fit daily life rather than academic theory. Her background includes work in child welfare, hospice care, and public schools across Illinois. That mix shaped a flexible approach to common family and caregiving challenges.
She brings decades of real-world experience rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. Janet often uses acceptance-based and mindfulness methods alongside client-centered and solution-focused techniques. That means she helps people notice what matters to them, build practical routines, and try short experiments to see what works.
Parents get tools for communication, boundaries, and stress management that can be put into use right away. Sessions tend to focus on what a person wants to change and on small behavioral shifts that ease daily life. Janet aims to make therapy feel like a steady, encouraging partnership.
She supports people through grief, parenting strain, identity questions including LGBT concerns, and practical coping with chronic illness or caregiving roles.
What Janet works with
Everything Janet lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Janet helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Janet lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches for online parenting and grief support
Janet uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT often helps with anxiety, parenting decisions, and coping with loss by focusing on actions consistent with personal priorities.She also works from a client-centered and mindfulness-informed stance, offering calm, attentive listening and simple practices to reduce reactivity. Mindfulness techniques can aid sleeping problems, anger, stress, and day-to-day caregiving strain.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit each person's needs, and adjust strategies based on what produces helpful change. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to keep using.
Online therapy with Janet is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues for parenting discussions, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and caregiving routines.
Questions people ask about Janet
What concerns does Janet typically address?
Janet supports people with stress, anxiety, parenting questions, grief, self-esteem, relationship concerns, trauma, sleeping problems, anger, and mood disorders such as bipolar and depression.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is compassionate and down-to-earth, focusing on listening, practical steps, and collaborative goal-setting to help people manage everyday challenges.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She brings 35 years of social work, counseling, and advocacy experience, including roles in child welfare, hospice, and schools in Illinois.
What credentials and location are on file?
She is an LCSW licensed in Illinois and practices with that credential in the state.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions based on therapist availability.
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