Janice Ruchlis, LMFT

California · 30 years in practice

Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and relationship struggles.

License and registration

LMFT, California: 30101 · expires June 2026
NPI: 1659413508 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 30
Languages: English

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About Janice

Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Janice talks plainly and helps clients find clearer ways to cope and heal.

Her approach blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with attachment-based ideas and cognitive-behavioral techniques. She also draws on mindfulness and dialectical behavior strategies to help people notice patterns and try different responses.

Background and approach

Sessions often include short skills practice and focused conversation about what matters most to the client. Janice has worked with people from diverse backgrounds and values cultural differences in therapy. She helps parents with parenting strain, people dealing with grief or illness, and those navigating identity questions including LGBT concerns.

She also supports people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, and career transitions. Rather than long theory talks, she uses straightforward questions and experiments clients can try between sessions. That can look like changing a small routine, practicing a skill, or reflecting on how past connections shape current feelings.

Janice meets people where they are and adapts interventions to their pace. Her practice in California serves English-speaking clients and accepts international clients for remote work. To begin, clients use a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.

Janice aims to make therapy an understandable, usable part of everyday life.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Janice lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
LGBT
Relationship issues
Depression
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fertility issues
Gender dysphoria
Hearing impaired
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Money and financial issues
Multicultural concerns
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Phobias
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Janice names

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Online support

Emotion-focused and attachment work online

Janice commonly uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and name their feelings and the patterns those feelings create. EFT supports work on connection and emotional responses, which can help with relationship strain, grief, and intimacy issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current reactions; it helps people understand why they react as they do and practice different ways of relating.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try concrete behavior changes that reduce distress. These approaches are explained in simple terms and adapted to each person's goals. Finding the right mix is part of the process, and the therapist works collaboratively with clients to choose methods that fit their needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth, live chat can be quicker for check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional clarity.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Janice commonly help with?

She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, and related concerns like ADHD and body image.

What is her general therapy style?

Her style is conversational and practical, combining emotion-focused work with skills training and reflective exploration. Sessions aim to identify patterns and try small experiments between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

Janice brings 30 years of clinical experience to her practice, working with people from varied backgrounds and life stages.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, CA LMFT, based in California.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for remote work.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How does billing and cost work?

Session cost varies with location and therapist factors; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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