Janice McDermott, LCSW
Mississippi · 31 years in practice
Janice McDermott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Mississippi
- C8073 · expires April 2027
- LCSW, Louisiana
- 2761 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1558651315 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 31
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Janice
Janice McDermott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience. She has worked across outpatient and inpatient settings, addiction recovery centers, public and chartered schools, and maintained a independent practice. She recently retired from supervising new social workers as they completed licensure requirements.
Janice is also an author of books on healing and mental wellbeing. Janice helps people who are struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, stress, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
She listens first and shapes sessions around what each person needs. Her goal is to help clients find the part of themselves that knows what change is needed and give that part a voice. Her approach blends practical, talk-based work with emotion-focused techniques.
She uses methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when they fit a client's needs. She also incorporates client-centered and existential ideas to help people explore meaning and values. Janice often guides clients through grounding and self-management strategies that draw on everyday senses and routines.
She emphasizes progress over perfection and supports steps toward increased self-empowerment. Sessions may focus on coping skills, relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, addiction, ADHD, career matters, or parenting strain among other topics. People who prefer a collaborative, steady style may find her practical and encouraging.
She adapts session format to fit the situation and starts from where each person is. Janice aims to help clients move toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Janice lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Janice names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How chosen therapies translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take committed action toward what matters. It uses simple exercises and mindfulness skills to reduce avoidance and build habits, which adapt well to video or phone coaching. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework tasks that are easy to share and track between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships and personal patterns, using guided conversation and reflection to increase emotional clarity. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit best for their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That may mean mixing ACT, CBT, and emotionally-focused work as needs evolve. Online sessions offer flexibility that helps people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when gestures and tone matter. Phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and easier to schedule during a break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it simpler to keep consistent momentum and to practice skills between meetings.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Janice commonly address?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, ADHD, parenting and career concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions start from where the person is and focus on finding useful steps and coping strategies.
What background and experience does she bring?
Janice has 31 years of experience in outpatient and inpatient mental health, addiction recovery centers, schools, and independent practice, and she supervised new social workers before retiring from that role.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an MS LCSW and holds a Louisiana LCSW designation as listed; she practices from Mississippi.
Which languages are offered and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions conducted online?
Janice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working together?
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