Janice Ruchlis, LMFT

Janice Ruchlis is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with anger, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, depression, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts international clients.

Janice focuses on exploring how past experiences shape present feelings and behavior. She blends approaches from attachment work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally-focused methods, and mindfulness. In practice this means talking through what triggers strong reactions, testing different ways of responding, and building clearer patterns of relating.

Her approach mixes psychodynamic ideas with behavioral and developmental perspectives. That can look like tracing repeated patterns from earlier relationships, then practicing concrete skills to change them. Janice also brings attention to spiritual and cultural differences when relevant.

She has worked with people across a wide range of concerns, including parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, ADHD, chronic illness, grief, and career transitions. She also addresses more specific areas such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, and alternative sexual cultures when those topics come up in therapy.

Practical work in sessions often includes learning grounding and mindfulness exercises, using CBT-style tools to shift unhelpful thinking, and applying DBT skills for emotion regulation. Janice invites clients to set clear goals and try small experiments between sessions. To begin, clients use the site’s matching steps to schedule a first session.

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