Janie Shankle, LPC, LCMHC

Janie Shankle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. She focuses on grief and loss, trauma and abuse, and a broad range of emotional and life challenges including depression, anxiety, stress, and codependency concerns.

Janie approaches work believing clients know their own stories and strengths. She uses straightforward conversation to help people name problems and choose next steps. Sessions emphasize practical skills and realistic options rather than long theoretical explanations.

Her background includes work with grief related to terminal illness and varied losses. This experience shapes how she talks about end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and the complicated feelings that follow bereavement. People who are living with chronic illness, cancer, or hospice issues may find her practical focus useful.

Janie draws on several well-known methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. She blends these methods to address trauma symptoms, addictive behaviors, coping with life changes, and relationship patterns like people-pleasing and control issues.

In sessions she helps people practice clearer communication, boundary-setting, and emotional regulation. She also supports work on career stress, parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges, and self-esteem. The approach is collaborative - she helps clients pick skills and strategies that fit day-to-day life.

How her approaches guide online sessions