Stefanie Janes
Warm practical support for life transitions
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stefanie
Stefanie Janes is a Michigan Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem, career questions, and life changes. Her tone is calm and direct, aimed at parents and adults looking for clear guidance and practical tools.
She uses a humanistic, whole-person perspective that looks beyond symptoms to what matters in daily life. Sessions emphasize strengths, values, and practical coping strategies.
Background and approach
Stefanie aims to build a collaborative space where clients can speak frankly and set goals that feel achievable. In work with parenting-related concerns, she helps people sort priorities, set boundaries, and find routines that reduce overwhelm. For career and transition issues she supports decision-making, motivation, and confidence building.
For anxiety and mood concerns she offers steady problem-solving and short-term skills to manage distress. Her practice pays attention to life context - relationships, work, and health all play a role. Stefanie helps clients connect small changes to bigger goals.
She encourages a gradual pace tailored to each person’s needs. Clients can expect straightforward sessions that focus on concrete steps, reflection, and skill-building. Stefanie values collaboration and works with each person to track progress and adjust plans as needed.
Approaches that guide online work and choice
Stefanie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques within a humanistic framework. She emphasizes approaches that focus on present-day coping and building practical skills to manage anxiety and mood concerns. These methods help people identify unhelpful patterns, practice new behaviors, and develop tools for daily life.Another core element is a values-oriented, whole-person approach. This involves looking at work, relationships, health, and meaning to help connect small changes to larger goals. It is useful for parenting challenges, career decisions, and life transitions where multiple areas of life intersect.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. Together they will try strategies, check how they’re working, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins or evening appointments when needed. Discuss session length and timing during the intake to match therapy to your schedule and goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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