Janice Stidman, LPC

Janice Stidman is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience based in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma in practical, straightforward ways. Janice aims to make talking about hard things feel less overwhelming and more manageable.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with other approaches to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with simple skills to try between meetings. Janice pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and helps people build new patterns.

Janice brings an affirming, trauma-informed stance to work with clients from diverse backgrounds. She supports those dealing with self-esteem struggles, grief, relationship strain, and identity questions. She also helps people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions.

Her practice includes attention to more specific concerns such as ADHD, mood disorders, abandonment and attachment issues, dissociation, and difficulties with impulse control. Janice works with people on parenting challenges, career stress, and navigating complicated family dynamics.

In sessions she blends practical tools and reflective conversation. Clients can expect clear steps, skill practice, and space to talk through painful memories or current stressors. The aim is steady progress so daily life feels a bit easier and more connected to what matters.

Janice holds an MS and is credentialed as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. She offers services in English and provides online formats to fit different schedules.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Janice uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that maintain stress and mood problems. CBT focuses on practical exercises and steps you can try between sessions to change how you think and act. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that reduce reactivity and improve communication.

EMDR is another approach she offers for processing traumatic memories. That method involves guided attention techniques alongside talk therapy to reduce the intensity of painful memories and the reactions they trigger. Janice will discuss which approaches fit your concerns and slowly introduce techniques that match your goals.

Finding the right method is a collaborative process. She works with each person to decide what to try first and checks in regularly to adjust the plan. The work is paced to your needs and focused on concrete steps toward your goals.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or movement is limited. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, skill practice, and flexible contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work even when in-person visits are not possible.