Janet Nestor, LCMHC

Janet Nestor is an LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor) practicing in North Carolina with 23 years of experience. She works with adults and teens aged 14 and up. Her main areas include anxiety, stress, trauma and abuse, mood conditions such as bipolar and depression, and patterns like codependency.

Janet describes an informal, client-centered way of working. Sessions are conversational and practical. She uses insight-oriented work alongside cognitive approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses.

Her early career was in special education, where she supported adolescents and adults with ADHD, learning differences, autism, and physical disabilities. That background informs how she approaches attention, sensory differences, and executive-function challenges in therapy today.

She also integrates somatic ideas and mindfulness to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. This can be useful for panic, chronic stress, and long-term health conditions such as Lyme disease or autoimmune illness, which she has experience addressing with clients.

Janet has worked with people affected by substance use and those in long-term recovery. She offers practical tools for anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, sleep and eating concerns, and relationship patterns where people tend to put others first. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on small, usable steps.

Her approach blends cognitive techniques, emotion-focused conversation, and mindfulness in ways that fit each person's situation. People who prefer a conversational, down-to-earth clinician often find this style helpful when tackling stress, grief, or complicated life changes.

How her approaches translate to online work