Janet Stone-Nielsen, LCSW

Janet Stone-Nielsen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 24 years of experience concentrating on trauma and its wide-ranging effects. She has focused extensively on domestic and sexual abuse and the complex concerns that can follow - including post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, depression, codependency, difficulties around divorce or separation, grief, work and economic challenges, self-esteem struggles, and parenting stress. Her long practice has emphasized understanding how past harms shape relationships and daily functioning, and she brings that perspective to each therapeutic relationship.

Janet also serves as a certified clinical supervisor and works with other professionals to address self-care and compassion fatigue, drawing on her clinical background to support those in helping roles. Her therapeutic stance is warm and compassionate, beginning with where the person is and using a person-centered, empowerment-focused framework. She frequently incorporates psychoeducation to highlight patterns and provide practical tools that support lasting change.

Janet has substantial training in trauma work and in related treatment models. She is newly trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and also trained in trauma-focused behavioral approaches and motivational interviewing. These skills inform a flexible practice that aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward greater resilience and wellbeing.