Janet Lengsfelder, LMFT
California · 25 years in practice
Janet Lengsfelder is a licensed marriage and family therapist who draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand their emotional life.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 36041 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1407470446 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Janet
Janet Lengsfelder is a licensed marriage and family therapist who draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand their emotional life. She builds on 25 years of clinical experience and a background in nursing to support practical healing. Janet speaks plainly and focuses on what people can do day to day to feel steadier.
She began her career as a nurse and later completed graduate training that expanded her work beyond physical healing.
Background and approach
That early care work shaped how she listens for what matters to each person. Her training in Gestalt therapy informs the way she notices patterns in how people show up in relationships and in their own lives. Janet helps people name their recurring life themes.
She guides them to strengthen a sense of self and to recognize choices. This often reduces the feeling of catastrophe and turns panic into more manageable emotions like sadness or disappointment. Her approach is straightforward and relational.
Sessions involve careful listening, reflective conversation, and practical steps clients can try between meetings. She encourages risk-taking in the service of growth and fuller living. Janet has worked with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship problems.
She also supports people facing caregiver strain, cancer-related issues, and end-of-life matters. Her style is steady, warm, and focused on helping people move forward.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Janet lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Janet names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Emotion-focused care online and practical tools
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on how emotions and attachment needs shape relationships and personal wellbeing. It helps people identify what they feel, how they react, and what changes might create safer emotional connection or calmer internal states.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early bonds and how they influence current patterns. It can help when people struggle with trust, codependency, commitment issues, or repeating family of origin patterns.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard without judgment and following what matters most to the person in the room. This approach supports people who want a steady, respectful space to sort through decisions, grief, or life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet will collaborate to pick techniques that match a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. She tailors sessions so people try approaches that feel useful, then checks in and adjusts as progress is made.
Online therapy makes ongoing care more flexible. Video calls let people maintain visual connection for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging is useful for ongoing coaching or quick reflections. These options allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping the focus on emotional and relational change.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Janet focus on?
Janet works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, and trauma and abuse.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is relational and emotion-focused, using clear listening and reflective conversation to help people notice patterns and try practical changes between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she bring?
Janet brings 25 years of experience, including an early career in nursing and later graduate training and Gestalt work that inform her approach.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, California LMFT, and practices from California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she use?
Janet offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different needs and schedules.
How are costs and getting started handled?
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