Janie Shankle

Janie Shankle is a licensed professional counselor practicing in North Carolina. She holds LPC and LCMHC credentials and brings eleven years of clinical experience to her work. Janie focuses on grief, loss, trauma, and related struggles including stress, anxiety, and compassion fatigue.

She approaches sessions with respect for each person's story. Janie treats people as the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. Her manner is steady and straightforward, aiming to make hard topics easier to talk about.

In the room she uses practical strategies from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral methods. She also draws on dialectical behavior techniques and solution-focused steps when helpful. These tools are used to clarify goals, reduce overwhelming feelings, and create small, manageable changes.

Janie has particular experience supporting people facing serious illness, caregiving strain, and end-of-life concerns. She also helps with relational issues, addiction struggles, parenting stress, and challenges tied to abandonment or family of origin patterns.

Her work mixes listening with active problem solving. Clients can expect to talk through painful memories, practice coping skills, and set realistic steps toward change. Janie emphasizes collaboration and clear goals so progress feels practical and measured.

How Janie’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and make clearer choices about next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Janie will collaborate with each person to decide which tools fit their needs, goals, and everyday life. That decision can shift over time as progress is made or new challenges arise.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking since the biography did not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. It can also let people use phone or lower-bandwidth options when video is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and DBT skills to an online setting so sessions focus on problem solving, skill practice, and goal setting without promising specific outcomes.