Janice Sowell, LPC, LPCC

Janice Sowell offers calm, practical help for people struggling with stress and anxiety. She talks with each person about what feels most urgent and what small steps might help. Janice aims to make sessions feel focused and understandable for someone who is worried and looking for relief.

Janice is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC. She earned a Master of Education focused on Professional Counseling and Human Development with a specialization in Mental Health Counseling from Lindsey Wilson College in 2016. She began practicing in multiple states and in 2023 received approval to practice in Tennessee.

Her work centers on trauma-informed care and crisis intervention. She commonly helps people facing trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Janice emphasizes compassion, authenticity, and collaboration during sessions.

Janice primarily uses cognitive behavioral approaches and believes thoughts shape feelings and actions. She also uses client-centered ideas, mindfulness, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and motivational interviewing as suited to each person. Treatment plans are chosen together based on what the person wants to change.

In sessions she helps clients name goals, notice strengths, and practice strategies that fit daily life. Janice encourages steady effort and supports people as they try new ways of coping. She frames therapy as a team effort focused on achievable steps toward a more satisfying life.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Janice uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, then practice specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.

She also integrates client-centered methods that focus on listening, empathy, and building a trusting working relationship. That approach helps people feel heard while they set goals. Janice draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness are needed.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Janice will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together the therapist and client decide which strategies to try and revise them as progress is made.

The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, use shorter check-ins around work breaks, or avoid being on camera when that is not needed. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, client-centered listening, mindfulness, and DBT skills to remote sessions so practical tools and goal-oriented work continue even when schedules are tight.