Professional Bio

Jan is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with the state of Washington (License LH00003741) and a Nationally Certified Counselor.  She holds an additional specialization as a Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist.  Jan is also a group therapist with extensive experience leading and facilitating group therapy sessions.    Jan has been practicing professionally for 22 years.

What You Can Expect In Therapy.
Jan offers a safe, confidential space to discuss your issues and concerns.  You will find a listening ear and someone who will treat you with dignity and genuine concern.    Through therapy, Jan will give you constructive feedback, help you gain new insight into your life to make better choices, and give you effective tools to resolve issues.  She will also work together with you to craft and put in place a practical plan that will help guide you through your journey, enabling you to reach your goals.  You will also have the option of integrating a Christian faith perspective into your sessions if you desire.

Jan’s Approach To Counseling:
Jan sees the therapeutic process as one characterized by openness and a collaborative partnership.  Since each person is unique, treatment is specifically designed and adopted to the needs of each client.  Jan uses an integrative approach in sessions, drawing from cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems, and the Gottman model, using those components that are both highly regarded and well researched. In a collaborative partnership, clients are expected to participate in therapy, with a willingness to work both in and outside the counseling sessions. 

In Marriage & Family Therapy, Jan works with couples in the areas of:

• Overcoming barriers to communication
• Rebuilding broken trust
• Resolving issues that block family unity
• Adultery & intimacy issues
• Addressing unhealthy couple and family dynamics
• Work through issues of anger, control, and conflict
• Address  goal planning
• Pre-marriage counseling
• Separation / divorce intervention

Jan understands the struggles often encountered in relationships, and how the demands of life can imperil individual goals and dreams.  Her years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families overcome their challenges, both big and small, has seasoned her therapy to be effective, empowering, and life changing .  

With Individual Counseling, Jan works with clients in the areas of:

• Finding hope through depression and/or loneliness
• Overcoming stress & anxiety
• Resolving issues of self-worth
• Navigating major life changes and transitions
• Healing from grief & loss
• Spiritual conflict
• Goal planning

Jan is a wife (married thirty-five years), mother, and grandmother.  She is married to an only child  and has an older sister, a twin sister, and two brothers.  From personal and professional experience, Jan understands relationships, personal struggles, and couples and family dynamics.

Jan Canniff, LMHC, NCC  
Licensed Mental Health Counselor / Certified Gottman Method Couples Therapist
9757 NE Juanita Drive, Suite 102 Kirkland, WA See MAP
Phone: 206-781-3593
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