Janice Gillmore, LPC

Janice Gillmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 35 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship concerns and supports people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and parenting strain. Janice aims to help clients find more meaning, connection, and balance in daily life.

Her approach blends emotional work with attention to inner life. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how patterns of connection shape feelings and behavior. She also draws on mindfulness practices to help slow down and reduce reactivity. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to affect current relationships and mood.

Janice describes her practice as psycho-spiritual; she helps clients explore how personal values and spiritual beliefs fit into healing. She is a certified yoga teacher and a certified meditation teacher and can share basic practices when requested. These tools are offered as options to help clients manage stress and build resilience.

Sessions often address specific life moments like separation, loss, career change, or parenting pressures. She also works with attachment issues, intimacy struggles, communication problems, shame and guilt, and process addictions. The goal is to support people as they make practical, values-based choices.

Clients can expect a collaborative style that combines talk work with practical exercises. Janice aims to create space for honest feeling and steady progress. She encourages people to bring real-life problems and curiosity about personal growth.

How emotional work and mindfulness translate online

Janice uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful interaction patterns in relationships. EFT focuses on identifying underlying feelings and shifting how people connect to create safer bonds. Mindfulness Therapy is offered to help reduce reactivity and build steady attention through simple breath and awareness practices that calm anxiety and improve focus.

Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approach - emotional, mindfulness, or trauma-focused tools - makes the most sense for their goals. This is a team effort that tests what helps and adjusts as progress is made.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because the listing does not specify formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also lets people use guided mindfulness or meditation practices between sessions. Confirm the current session options to match practical needs and schedule.