Janice Gillmore, LPC

Janice Gillmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and addictions. She focuses on helping people find steadier footing when life feels overwhelming. Janice aims to help clients regain balance and move toward clearer goals and healthier relationships.

Janice has worked in counseling since 1990, bringing 35 years of experience in public and private settings. She has supported people with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, ADHD, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic sexual behavior. Her work also addresses issues like anger, low self-esteem, isolation, and life transitions.

Her approach blends emotionally focused work with trauma-informed perspectives and psychodynamic ideas. She also uses mindfulness and Internal Family Systems tools to help people notice patterns and build new responses. Sessions often include practical steps for coping and skills people can use between meetings.

Janice describes her practice as psycho-spiritual in orientation and invites people to bring their own spiritual or religious framework into therapy if they wish. She is a certified yoga teacher and certified meditation teacher and can offer guidance on mindfulness and meditation when requested.

People interested in beginning work with Janice can expect a collaborative start, where concerns and goals are clarified and a plan is shaped around their needs. She practices in Virginia and works in English.

Approaches that work well online and in conversation

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change interaction patterns that cause pain in close relationships. It focuses on feelings and attachments so partners or individuals can build safer emotional bonds. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and help manage anxiety, stress, and cravings. These skills are short exercises people can practice between sessions. Trauma-Focused Therapy looks at the effects of traumatic events and uses gradual, paced work to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit the client's goals, history, and comfort level. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made and priorities change, so the work stays relevant to what matters most to each person.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow people to practice mindfulness or grounding skills in their usual environment. For some, sessions by phone or video offer a quicker check-in on a stressful day or a longer focused appointment when deeper work is needed.