Janice Ruchlis
Compassionate family-focused therapy with practical tools
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Janice
Janice Ruchlis offers help for parents and individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, parenting challenges, trauma, and addiction. She also supports issues around grief, intimacy, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and career changes. Janice is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of experience in California.
She speaks English and works with clients internationally. Janice keeps talks straightforward and practical. She blends attachment ideas with cognitive and mindfulness tools.
Background and approach
Sessions move between understanding patterns from early relationships and building new coping skills for daily life. People can expect a down-to-earth tone and clear steps to try between meetings. Her approach includes Emotionally-Focused Therapy to map relationship patterns and Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds affect current behavior.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps reshape unhelpful thoughts and habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices are used for emotional regulation and stress relief. Janice has worked in community and personal settings over 30 years and has experience with a wide range of concerns, including adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image problems.
Her background includes helping people from diverse nationalities and ages. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility. Fees vary by location and are billed through a cancel-anytime subscription.
To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule according to therapist availability.
How Janice’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions. Online sessions use discussion and exercises to identify those patterns and try different ways of relating in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical steps to change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. It includes clear homework and short skills practice between sessions to test new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice will collaborate with clients to choose which methods to try first based on their concerns and goals. That process is flexible and can be adjusted as progress is made or needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, attend from different locations, and keep continuity when life changes. The variety of formats also allows sessions to focus on talk therapy, skills coaching, or brief check-ins as needed.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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