Janice Susman, LMFT

Janice Susman is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and anxiety, lift low mood, and build stronger self-esteem. She believes people bring strengths to the work and helps them use those strengths to move forward.

Her style is direct and supportive. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them test new ways of thinking and acting that fit their life.

Janice often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. She pairs that with straightforward problem solving for life changes, relationship concerns, and everyday stressors.

People come to her for help with relationship friction, communication problems, divorce and separation, and challenges around motivation and confidence. She also works with concerns like guilt, shame, loneliness, and finding purpose after big life transitions.

Her sessions aim to leave people with concrete tools they can use between appointments. Janice encourages small experiments outside sessions so new habits can take hold. She frames progress as steady work, not a single moment of change.

Janice offers care in English and practices from California. She supports people who want practical, skills-based therapy and clear steps toward feeling more capable and connected.

CBT and practical therapy online

Janice uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thought patterns that worsen stress and anxiety, then test new, more helpful ways of thinking. CBT is useful for worry, depression, social anxiety, and building confidence through small behavior changes.

The choice of approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide whether CBT and specific exercises fit their goals. That collaborative process includes setting clear, measurable goals and trying brief experiments between sessions to see what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for longer, face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send quick updates or maintain momentum between longer sessions. These formats provide flexibility for scheduling, make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, and support steady progress with practical tools.