Janet Stone-Nielsen, LCSW

Janet Stone-Nielsen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 24 years of experience. She focuses on relationship concerns alongside stress, anxiety, trauma, and related life challenges. Her approach is warm and person-centered, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood from the first session.

She begins by meeting people where they are and building a practical plan together. Janet uses simple education about how patterns form, so clients can make steady changes in daily life. She blends supportive listening with hands-on tools to manage symptoms like anxiety, sleep trouble, and low mood.

Much of her background centers on trauma, including domestic and sexual abuse and the issues that can follow. That work has included helping people with PTSD symptoms, grief, relationship and parenting strain, codependency, and career and economic worries.

Janet also supports clinicians as a certified clinical supervisor, with a focus on self-care and compassion fatigue. She has training in several trauma-related methods and continues to integrate new practices into her work.

Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances emotional support with practical strategies. She explains techniques plainly and helps people apply them between sessions. Her goal is steady progress toward clearer relationships, better daily functioning, and improved coping with life changes.

How her approaches work in online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's lead. It helps people feel understood and clarifies what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and other symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach used for trauma that helps people process painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will explain different methods and will help decide what fits based on personal goals, needs, and comfort. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Many people find online sessions useful because they fit around work and family, cut travel time, and make it easier to keep regular appointments. Online work also allows follow-up check-ins and practice between sessions, which helps carry changes into daily life.