Janice Gillmore, LPC - Therapist in Virginia

About Janice

Janice Gillmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with a long history helping adults and families facing relationship and parenting challenges. She focuses on practical changes that make daily life easier. Her tone is calm and direct, and she aims to create space for honest conversation about what is hard right now.

Janice brings 35 years of experience to sessions and draws on several therapy approaches to match each person's needs.

Background and approach

She often uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at attachment and connection in relationships. She also uses Mindfulness practices to help people manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelming emotions. Her background includes work in both personal and public settings with individuals, couples, adolescents, and families.

She has helped people with depression, trauma and post-traumatic stress, addictions, grief, parenting concerns, and many forms of relationship strain. Janice is licensed in Virginia - LPC - and works in English. In sessions she blends long-term insight with hands-on tools.

That might mean noticing patterns that keep repeating, trying short mindfulness practices, or learning new ways to talk about painful topics. She explains ideas plainly and focuses on small steps clients can use between meetings. Parents who are juggling stress, family conflict, or life change will find a straightforward, experience-based approach.

Janice also addresses issues like self-esteem, anger, and coping with major transitions. She invites people to explore what matters most and to build skills that support daily family life.

Approaches that translate to online family and parenting work

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people see how attachment and emotion shape their relationships. In simple terms it highlights patterns that leave partners or family members feeling disconnected and guides them to respond differently so closeness can grow.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches short attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and interrupt overwhelm. These skills are useful for parents who need quick tools to calm intense moments or to manage anxiety between sessions.

Janice treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels right. Together they test techniques and adjust the plan so therapy fits the family’s needs and schedule.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people show their home context when useful, while phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging can work around parenting schedules and busy days. These remote options make it easier to keep momentum, practice new skills between sessions, and get support without long commutes.

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.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Janice help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues plus trauma, grief, addictions, parenting challenges, and related concerns such as attachment, communication, and intimacy problems.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses a blend of practical tools and deeper insight. Sessions often mix emotional exploration with mindfulness and steps clients can try between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

Janice has 35 years of clinical experience, including work in both personal and public settings with individuals, couples, adolescents, and families.

What credentials and region apply to her practice?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - in Virginia with license VA LPC 0701003010 and practices in that state.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats does she offer?

Sessions can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 35 years
Licensed: Virginia
Languages: English

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