Janette Hernandez , LMFT

Janette Hernandez is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with eight years of clinical experience. As an LMFT, she is trained to work with individuals, couples, and families to address emotional and relational challenges. She combines a person-centered outlook with a range of evidence-informed methods to meet clients where they are and collaboratively pursue meaningful change.

Over the past eight years, Janette has supported adults, youth, and families navigating life stressors such as relationship conflict, trauma, depression, anxiety, and adjustment challenges. She draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques alongside attachment-based, client-centered, dialectical behavior, and mindfulness-informed approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs and strengths. Her style emphasizes collaboration, practical skills, and developing insight while honoring each client as the expert on their own life.

Janette’s areas of focus include stress and anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, intimacy concerns, eating and body image issues, self-esteem, and career-related struggles. Additional clinical interests encompass abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, family of origin concerns, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and compassion fatigue. Prospective clients can expect a warm, structured, and empathetic approach aimed at helping them build clearer patterns and more satisfying connections.

Approaches Janette Uses and What Online Therapy Offers

Janette integrates several therapeutic approaches that translate well to remote work. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in close relationships and can help with abandonment, attachment wounds, and intimacy struggles. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, active listening, and the client’s own goals - it helps clients build self-awareness, confidence, and a stronger sense of agency. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

Deciding which approach fits best is part of the therapeutic process. Janette works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, preferences, and goals, adapting methods as progress unfolds so the work feels relevant and effective for each person.

Online therapy provides flexibility to access licensed professionals from home or work through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while working toward meaningful change.