Jeanette "Jan" Kaschmitter, LMHC

Jeanette "Jan" Kaschmitter is a Washington State Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience. She has worked across community mental health, inpatient psychiatric care, and a tribal clinic. Jan lists stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, and parenting among the issues she addresses.

Jan spent 13 years in integrated mental health and substance abuse programs, though she is not credentialed in substance use. Her work has focused mainly on adults and has included individual, couples, and group counseling in clinical and community settings.

Her approach draws from several models rather than a single method. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and client-centered ideas. She also has specialised training in grief and loss, trauma and sexual abuse, and co-occurring disorders.

In sessions she aims to match methods to each person’s situation. That can mean working on thinking patterns, learning emotion-regulation skills, setting practical goals, or building motivation for change. She describes her practice as eclectic and focused on the needs of the individual.

Jan often works with concerns that touch family life and parenting. She helps people talk through family of origin issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, divorce and separation matters, and communication problems. Many clients come for help with anger, shame, isolation, or coping with major life changes.

Her background spans public and tribal systems, inpatient settings, and outpatient care. That range informs how she supports people facing complex situations, longstanding patterns, or multiple diagnoses.

How Jan uses therapy approaches online