Janice Ruchlis , LMFT

Janice Ruchlis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting challenges, eating and sleeping concerns, and life transitions. Janice brings three decades of clinical experience to her work with individuals from varied backgrounds.

Her style blends practical strategies with attention to emotional meaning. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. She combines that with attachment-focused work to look at relationship patterns and with mindfulness practices to calm intense feelings.

Janice draws on many viewpoints in sessions. She mixes behavioral, developmental, psychodynamic, and spiritual perspectives when they fit a person’s needs. Sessions typically include clear steps you can try between meetings, alongside space to talk about painful memories and patterns.

She has worked with people across ages and nationalities, and values cultural and personal differences. Her approach aims to be collaborative: she helps clients set goals, tests what works, and adjusts plans when needed. Janice also brings attention to issues like caregiver stress, chronic illness, ADHD, adoption and foster care concerns, and body image.

Janice offers therapy in English and sees clients in California as well as international clients by online formats. She encourages a steady, paced process so people can build coping skills and feel more hopeful over time.

Approaches for online healing and growth

Janice uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns, which helps when intimacy, abandonment, or relationship fears come up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and problematic habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janice collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. That means trying strategies, checking how they feel in daily life, and changing course when needed.

Online therapy with Janice is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit into busy lives. Video helps recreate face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, travel, or differing schedules.