Janie Shankle

Janie Shankle is a licensed LPC and LCMHC practicing in North Carolina with 11 years of professional experience. She holds certification in Thanatology and has focused clinical work addressing grief, end-of-life concerns, and trauma and abuse. Her profile lists specialties that include depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship and parenting issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with major life changes.

Her clinical approach combines client-centered principles with practical, skills-based methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She emphasizes collaboration and the idea that the individual brings expertise about their own story while drawing on therapeutic tools to explore options and build coping strategies.

The profile also highlights additional focus areas including caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, family of origin dynamics, forgiveness, codependency, and questions of life purpose. Janie’s background in thanatology informs work with impending death, hospice and end-of-life counseling, bereavement, and related forms of loss.