Elizabeth Janca, LPC, LPCC

Elizabeth Janca is a licensed counselor from Texas who brings a client-centered approach to work with children, teens, and young adults. Born and raised south of Houston, she completed a Bachelor of Psychology at Texas A&M University and a Master of Counseling and Development at Texas Woman's University. Over nine years she has worked in a variety of therapeutic and educational roles, including applied behavior analysis (ABA) with young children, play therapy, activity-based interventions for adolescents, individual talk therapy, and group work with teens and adults. She also spent three years in middle school education serving as an academic counselor and administrator, which informs her understanding of school-related challenges and adolescent development.

Elizabeth primarily practices client-centered counseling, a Rogers-influenced approach that places the client at the center of the process and fosters reflection in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to support emotional regulation and coping skills when appropriate. Her background includes work with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep issues, anger, career matters, ADHD, and relationship and family dynamics, along with a focus on diverse areas such as autism, alternative sexual cultures, caregiving stress, chronic illness, polyamory, and young adult issues.

She has provided services across settings and platforms and has been involved with online therapy organizations to continue offering guidance and supportive therapeutic spaces for clients aged roughly 5 through 35. Elizabeth holds LPC and LPCC credentials - LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor and LPCC stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - reflecting her training and licensure to provide professional mental health care.