JANELLE MATTHEWS, LPCC, MC
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California - #4363)
Los Angeles-based Psychotherapy
for
Anxiety & Fear
Depression
Trauma
Relationship Problems
Janelle offers in-office and virtual psychotherapy services to adults across the developmental spectrum. Her therapeutic approach is attuned to your unique personality, beliefs, emotional needs, interpersonal style, personal goals, and readiness for change.
All therapy interventions are evidence-based and aligned with psychodynamic, mindfulness, cognitive behavioral, and emotion focused treatment methods.
Janelle has over 12 years of practice providing professional mental health services to diverse populations. Her clinical experience includes treatment to those with depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, psychiatric crisis, intimacy-related problems, attention deficits, and attachment-based distress. She specializes in treatment of anxiety, depression, and complex trauma.
Janelle obtained her undergraduate degree from Northern Arizona University, attaining a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She completed psychological research associated with the assessment and conceptualization of life satisfaction. Her extracurricula included humanistic studies, sociology, and athletics.
Janelle completed her graduate studies at Arizona State University, pursuing study in existentialism and counseling. The Masters of Counseling program has been accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
As a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), Janelle can assist to identify the factors impacting your mental health and wellness. Goals of therapy are individualized to reduce suffering and actualize self-potential.
Principles of Practice Approach
Cognitive
Behavioral
(CBT)
Psychodynamic
Emotion
Focused
(EFT)
Mindfulness
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic interventions are insight-oriented, assisting to identify and change unconscious motivations for your behavior, psychological defense mechanisms, and recurring patterns in your life. This approach will include exploration of interpersonal relationships and dynamics that emerge within the therapy relationship.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness involves our capacity to concentrate attention to the experience of the present moment. The incorporation of mindfulness-skills will include prompts and exercises to increase awareness to thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. These skills are practiced to increase self-control and safe embodiment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) is based in the principle that problems and distress are based, at least in part, on faulty or unhelpful thoughts and learned patterns of behavior. Cognitive behavioral interventions assist to identify and modify thoughts and behavior that do not support your mental health needs or desired goal outcomes.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally focused therapy applies theory of attachment and attachment related distress to identify and discontinue conflict patterns. Interventions will build insight to unhealthy patterns of communication, behavioral reactions, and relevant emotional needs. Skills will be developed as needed to support connection, attachment security, and relationship satisfaction.
