Janet Wise, LCSW

Janet Wise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, and challenges like ADHD and body image. She works with adults across the lifespan, from young adults to seniors, and brings a steady, compassionate presence to sessions.

Janet draws on practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and client-centered work. She focuses on thoughts and everyday habits to help people manage symptoms and rebuild routines. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small, doable changes that fit into daily life.

Her background includes extensive work with people who have chronic illness and with those affected by community violence and gender identity concerns. She has provided grief and crisis counseling in hospital settings, including emergency and intensive care units, and has offered pastoral care in a large New York church. These experiences inform a calm, trauma-aware approach.

Janet also brings pastoral counseling training from Fordham University and integrates compassion and spiritual sensitivity when clients want that element included. Outside clinical work she teaches yoga, Enerchi (a form of Tai Chi), and cardio-fitness, which she sometimes uses to encourage movement and self-care between sessions.

She practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to her availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small actions that reflect their values. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and making changes in daily habits. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments and new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection, which can be useful for people dealing with relationship stress or attachment concerns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Janet will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they review what feels useful and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant to everyday life.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people try mindfulness exercises, behavioral experiments, and values-based tasks between meetings so change can happen day to day.