Janet Lengsfelder, LMFT

Janet Lengsfelder is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 25 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, parenting strain, and family of origin issues. She began her career as a nurse and later completed graduate study and additional psychotherapy training, bringing both medical and relational perspectives to her work.

Janet uses attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused methods to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people notice what is happening in the moment and make different choices. The Gottman Method influences her work with communication and relationship interactions.

In sessions she guides people to identify recurring life themes and the roles they learned in their families. She focuses on making internal patterns clearer so reactions feel less overwhelming. That clarity often shifts panic or catastrophic thinking into responses that feel more manageable.

Her background as a nurse informs a practical, grounded style. She encourages people to try new ways of relating and to take small risks that expand emotional range. Janet helps with issues such as codependency, commitment concerns, control problems, and intimacy-related struggles.

She also supports people facing caregiving demands, serious illness or end-of-life concerns, and grief tied to family losses. Janet combines long clinical experience with conversational, direct guidance to help people notice choices and move toward more stable emotional responses.

How her approaches translate to online work