- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Anger management
About Janice
Janice Stidman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Mississippi with ten years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. Her style is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel useful from the start.
She welcomes conversations about relationships, work strain, grief, self-esteem, and identity concerns including LGBT issues. Sessions often focus on everyday problems such as communication breakdowns, feeling isolated, impulse control, and managing mood changes.
Background and approach
Janice helps people break big problems into small, manageable steps. Her work draws on several approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused ideas to improve connection, and tools from trauma-informed therapies. She mixes ideas to fit what a person needs rather than following one fixed method.
Practical skills and clear goals are emphasized. Parents find her helpful for the stress of caregiving, parenting strain, and balancing work and family demands. She offers concrete strategies for handling conflict, setting boundaries, and improving routines without large disruptions to daily life.
Janice provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works with the therapist's availability.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Janice lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-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.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Janice draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood through concrete exercises and practice. She also uses elements of Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people clarify feelings and improve how they express emotions in relationships, which can ease conflict and deepen connection. For trauma-related concerns she incorporates parts of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address distressing memories and reduce their hold on day-to-day life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and pace. She adjusts techniques over time so the plan stays practical and relevant rather than fixed in advance.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility for parents and people with tight schedules while keeping therapeutic progress consistent.
Questions people ask about Janice
What concerns does Janice commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, grief, and relationship issues, plus related areas like ADHD, self-esteem, and mood disorders.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and compassionate, focusing on clear skills, short-term goals, and steady progress rather than abstract theory.
What is her professional background?
Janice has ten years of clinical experience and brings a trauma-informed, affirming perspective to her work with diverse identities.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi.
Does she work in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Janice provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and routines.
How are sessions billed and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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