Janet Stone-Nielsen

Janet Stone-Nielsen is an LCSW with 24 years of clinical practice based in North Carolina. Her work has focused extensively on trauma, with particular experience addressing domestic and sexual abuse and the concerns that often follow, including post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, codependency, grief, relationship and parenting difficulties, and career and economic stresses. She also supports people working through divorce or separation and those coping with self-esteem and intimacy-related issues.

She is a certified clinical supervisor and works with other helping professionals on topics such as self-care and compassion fatigue. Her therapeutic orientation is person centered and empowerment focused, beginning with the client’s current needs and building on their strengths. She uses psychoeducation to illuminate patterns that can get in the way of change and to support more sustainable coping.

Clinically she draws on a range of approaches, including Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a modality she is newly trained in. Her manner is described as warm and compassionate, with an emphasis on meeting people where they are and helping them take practical steps toward what matters to them.