Janet Lengsfelder
Supportive therapy focused on connection and coping
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Janet
Janet Lengsfelder is a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings 25 years of experience to her work. She began her career as a nurse and later studied marriage and family therapy to better support whole-person healing. Janet combines practical care with deep listening to help people face stress, grief, anxiety, addiction, and relationship concerns.
She usesAttachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice patterns in how they connect with others.
Background and approach
Client-Centered Therapy guides sessions so the person sets the pace and priorities. Mindfulness tools are used to calm strong emotions and improve focus. Janet’s early nursing background shaped a hands-on view of recovery.
She learned to value steady support and teamwork in healing. That experience informs how she structures sessions now - steady, grounded, and practical. Her approach helps people see recurring life themes and strengthen their sense of self.
She offers a mix of curiosity, challenge, and encouragement to help people change unhelpful patterns. The goal is not to erase hard feelings but to shift how those feelings are experienced. Janet asks clients to take small risks in service of fuller living.
She invites people to learn from struggles so they can access more joy. Her work is offered from California where she holds the LMFT credential.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how people form bonds and how those patterns affect daily life. It helps identify repeated ways of reacting in close relationships and supports building safer, steadier connections.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on feelings in relationships and the interactions they create. EFT helps people name emotions, slow down reactive cycles, and shift how they relate to others in moments of upset.
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals and pace first. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offering empathy and reflection so people can find their own solutions and make choices that feel right.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Janet will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people see and hear each other, phone sessions remove travel, and live chat or text messaging can support check-ins or shorter conversations. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing school, work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point