About Janet
Janet Nestor is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 23 years of experience. She combines a conversational, down-to-earth style with therapies that pay attention to both body and mind. Janet aims to make sessions feel approachable and straightforward for people under stress or facing big life changes.
She emphasizes somatic work alongside client-centered and cognitive-behavioral approaches. That means she notices physical sensations as part of emotional work and uses practical thinking tools to shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often mix talking, gentle awareness of the body, and simple skills to manage difficult moments. Her background includes many years in special education supporting adolescents and adults with ADHD, learning differences, autism, and physical disabilities. That prior work informs how she tailors sessions to different learning styles and sensory needs.
She also has experience supporting people with chronic illness and autoimmune concerns, including those who have felt sidelined by long-term health issues. Janet has worked with people dealing with anxiety, panic, stress, phobias, and substance use and recovery. She supports those wrestling with grief, self-esteem, anger, and career strain as well as mood challenges like depression and bipolar disorder.
Her approach is flexible and paced to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered from North Carolina in English using a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To start, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone to the process and schedule sessions that fit their life.
Practical approaches that work online and in the body
Janet uses somatic therapy to notice how stress and emotions show up in the body, and she brings simple practices into sessions so people can feel changes in real time. She also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and shaping the work around each person’s needs and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and teach clear skills for managing symptoms such as anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and comfort level, adjusting the mix of body-focused awareness, gentle skills practice, and talking as progress unfolds. The process is practical and paced to what feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work when in-person meetings are not possible. Janet uses these options to keep therapy consistent and accessible while helping people practice coping skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English