Janice Loboda, LPCC

Janice Loboda is a California-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting or family strain. She works with adults facing relationship problems, career burnout, grief, anger, addiction concerns, ADHD, and questions about life purpose. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at helping clients make small changes that add up.

She began her career in inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment. There she supported teenagers and parents as they recovered from addiction. Those early years shaped her focus on family stress and on helping parents navigate schools and educational supports for their children.

Janice later opened a private practice. She assists parents who need help with parenting plans, blended family issues, and working with schools on 504 or IEP accommodations. She also provides support for caregiver stress and people juggling workplace pressures.

In addition to addiction and parenting work, she has experience as an employee assistance program counselor. In that role she helped professionals address career stress, burnout, and barriers to returning to meaningful work.

Her approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with acceptance-based and attachment-informed techniques. She uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and client-centered work to help people build coping skills and stronger relationships.

How therapy approaches work online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that get in the way of feeling better. It often uses practical homework and short-term skill practice to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches ways to accept difficult feelings while taking action toward what matters. It helps people handle strong emotions and commit to values-driven steps in life and work.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and reactions. It can help with relationship difficulties, attachment issues, and building more secure ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the problems at hand. That means trying different tools and adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat fits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations.