Janet Wise, LCSW
Experienced trauma-informed LCSW
Details
| Name | Janet Wise |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | New York |
| Licensed in | New York |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 30 |
About Janet
Janet Wise is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She works plainly and compassionately, helping people find clearer footing after big life changes or persistent difficulties. Janet is based in New York and offers care in English.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and patterns, then helps clients tell their stories differently so they can try new choices and behaviors. Janet draws on Narrative approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, and emotionally-focused work. She blends these to match each person's needs rather than using a single formula.
That means practical steps, values-based goals, and attention to how stories from the past shape present action. Her background includes pastoral counseling and many years offering grief and crisis support in hospital settings, including emergency and intensive care units. She has also taught cultural competency and worked with people across the lifespan, from young adults to seniors.
Janet incorporates movement-based practices she teaches, like yoga and Enerchi, when clients are interested. People who come to Janet often want help coping with loss, managing mood and anxiety, improving relationships, addressing addictive patterns, or navigating identity and family issues. She aims to be warm, respectful, and practical while helping clients set and reach realistic goals.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse among the things Janet works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Janet among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Janet directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Janet directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Janet uses Narrative ideas to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships. This approach helps when old patterns or labels feel limiting and someone wants to try different ways of understanding life events.She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. Client-centered therapy is another part of her practice; it centers the session on the persons experience and priorities so the work moves at their pace.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Janet collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts over time as the work evolves so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and face-to-face connection, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, and health needs.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does Janet address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting and family-related stress, career challenges, ADHD, and related matters listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She listens for life stories and patterns, then helps clients try different behaviors and set values-based goals.
How much experience does she have working with these issues?
She has been practicing for 30 years, including extensive work in grief and crisis settings and long-term counseling with people across the lifespan.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in New York and provides services from New York.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Janet offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet with clients.
How do payments and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions operate through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
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