Janice E. Lafountaine, LMFT

We went to Janice to help my husband and I with some communication issues among other issues we were having in our marriage. We have been together for over 15yrs she was amazing had several techniques to use with us! We always walked out of our sessions feeling great. Since seeing Janice I have referred several people to her and all of them have nothing but positive feedback on her. I highly recommend Janice to everyone we know and would not hesitate should a issue arise going back to her in a heart beat. 

Janice has been an important part of my healing.  I am so very grateful to have had the opportunity to have Janice work cooperatively with me.  She has given me many tools to help me cope with my struggles in life.

My wife has seen many positive changes in me as I have continued to work with Janice.  My extended family has seen the changes in me as well, so I guess you could say that there is a small village of people grateful for Janice!

I have done a lot of EMDR work with Janice- she is very proficient in this type of therapy.  I was skeptical of this therapy initially, but I had formed a trust in Janice's professional abilities, so I followed her suggestions, and have made tremendous positive gains because of her.

So as I am on the tail-end of my therapy, I am shocked at how successful therapy with Janice was!  She basically worked herself out of a job, which is the best sign of of a therapist, in my opinion.

She is good if you are a normal person with relationship problems. If there is a mental health issue in your relationship, look elsewhere. She will just try to throw regular therapies at you, which won't work, because they're not targeting the underlying mental health issues. She also will tell you to read a lot of books, and they will be for normal couples without mental health issues, and they won't actually help.

She administers EMDR. That stuff is amazing, but it's not due to some special skill she has. You can get as good of EMDR therapy elsewhere.

If you don't give her all of the answers, if you are any bit of a challenge, she will tell you that she doesn't know how to help you. She might even tell you that you and your partner are not compatible because you have differences. She might even call one of you abusive and then change a few weeks later to call the other one abusive, when in reality, neither of you are abusive (but have both previously been abused and have PTSD from it).

If conflict or not being listened to triggers old childhood trauma, she will tell you that you don't know how to take criticism and maybe you have a mental disorder like her cousin.

When you tell her what you think you need help with and what modality you feel would be most effective, if she disagrees, she will dismiss it and tell you to do it her way. When it doesn't work, she will say she doesn't know how to help you.

I gave her a year, hoping she'd do better when she got to know me and my spouse. We're both getting a new therapist who actually listens to us, and actually does the _work_ to help.