Janelle Green, LICSW

Janelle Green, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Washington with five years of practice experience. She works with people facing grief, low self-esteem, depression, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Her stated approach centers on viewing clients as experts in their own stories and drawing on their existing strengths to address challenges.

Janelle uses several therapeutic methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. Sessions focus on practical steps, skill-building, and talking through feelings and behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning. She describes the work as collaborative and rooted in clients' goals.

Her practice also addresses issues tied to health and caregiving such as cancer, chronic pain, illness and disability, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and caregiver stress. Other areas of focus include blended family issues, communication problems, codependency, control issues, family of origin concerns, first responder issues, guilt and shame, isolation, and money or financial stress.

Janelle frames therapy around concrete changes and clearer choices. She aims to help people notice patterns, try different responses, and build manageable skills over time. Sessions are meant to be straightforward and focused on what people want to change.

She works in English and holds her Washington LICSW. People interested in working together begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.

Therapeutic approaches used in remote sessions