Janice Ruchlis

Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with thirty years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and low self-esteem. Janice also supports those dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and life transitions.

Her style blends practical behavior-based work with attention to early attachment patterns and present-moment awareness. She uses mindfulness exercises to help people manage intense feelings. She also draws on cognitive approaches to shift unhelpful thinking and on emotionally focused ideas to strengthen connection and communication.

Janice’s background includes long experience with diverse cultural and developmental needs. She has worked with people across ages and nationalities and pays attention to how background, identity, and life stage shape struggles. Her practice includes work on complex issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care challenges, and neurodiversity concerns.

Sessions focus on clear steps you can try between meetings. That might mean short mindfulness practices, skill-building for handling strong emotion, or reworking patterns that block intimacy. Janice aims to create a simple plan you can use day to day.

To begin, she asks about the problem you want to solve and about what has helped or not in the past. The process is collaborative, and pace is set to match each person’s needs and energy. Janice values bringing differences into the work and appreciating each person’s story.

How her approaches translate to online work

Janice commonly uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness exercises can be short and practiced between sessions to ease anxiety and improve sleep. She also works from an Attachment-Based Therapy perspective to notice patterns in relationships and to build safer, more secure ways of relating to others.

She pairs those ideas with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking. CBT offers concrete strategies for coping with depression, worry, and disruptive habits. Together these approaches aim to give practical skills as well as deeper understanding of how patterns developed.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. The choice of methods is collaborative, and she adjusts pace and focus as needs evolve.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit meetings into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and let people practice mindfulness or emotion skills in real-life settings between sessions. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively through careful planning and regular practice.