Practice Description
As a psychotherapist, Janina brings a keen awareness of physical and emotional nuances to her work with clients. During her years as an intensive care nurse she honed her skills of observation and attentiveness, skills that Janina now uses to help clients find emotional and spiritual healing. In each counseling interaction, Janina's goal is to provide a compassionate presence to facilitate healing. Of the many tools she brings to the counseling process, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is central to her approach. IFS helps people struggling with low self-esteem, anxiety or depression by teaching them to identify negative thought patterns and critical internal voices. With awareness comes the possibility of the life lived freely from the core of who we are created to be. Janina interweaves the IFS approach with her training in the Spiritual Root System which helps people identify and authentically express feelings in order to improve relationships and live fuller lives. In almost every case, it is Janina's experience and conviction that unresolved grief has a part to play in the therapeutic process. To that end, Janina helps people learn how to grieve well and incorporate loss in a restorative way. Janina counsels adult individuals, couples and families. Specialty areas: marital crisis, affair recovery, anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, grief and loss, life transitions, stress, managing difficult emotions, relationship problems, personal growth and development, blocks to spirituality.