Jane Steinberg, MFT

I’m writing to highly recommend Jane Steinberg as an empathetic and supportive therapist. My self esteem and relationship issues improved a great deal through recognizing negative patterns recreated from my traumatic past. I felt listened to and acknowledged on a deep level. I originally sought Jane to work on trauma and she is extremely adept at EMDR and somatic therapy. I feel more at ease with myself and my body as well as integrated at a core level. I am thankful to Jane for helping make that happen.

Jane’s therapy seems to be just about holding the space for you, as 2 of the 4-​star reviewers said, that she is an Outlet and a Listener.
I go into therapy for the professional expertise to work through the «Depth» of the issues, which Jane never probes but keeps at the Superficial level. I see the common complaint from the negative reviewers that their specific needs for therapy were not met either. My experience has been the same. I have never felt that Jane is engaged at the issues I am trying to work on. In order to fill in the gap of her not proactively asking questions to see what might be underneath, I have always been the one leading the conversations to help her get set up for the issues to look at! Even that, she still missed all those opportunities to dive in!
I came out of working with Jane feeling worse about myself! I actually felt her passing Judgement many times. She also has the bad habit with her distracted eyes checking out what shoes and outfit I wear each time I show up. One of the reviewers wrote that Jane implicitly told her how bad her situation was without providing further relief. I know what this client is talking about! I would have preferred a therapist to help me accept what is, and then work from that point to find ways to make it better! Jane’s judgments are quite damaging! She has made me feel like omg all these things are so wrong with me and my past and that I am so dysfunctional and I am doomed… I am actually a very functional woman with a successful job and good friends. I seek out therapy to improve myself on some unconscious conditionings that I would like to be more mindful about that can make me better in my relationships.
I am appreciative of all the reviewers on Unilocal,and I wish that I had checked Unilocal before. It really helps me to know that what I have been realizing from working with Jane is not just me, but others have noticed the same too. I know for sure she is not the right therapist for me. I don’t need a therapist to make me feel like a lab rat to be observed, put into boxes with all sorts of dysfunctional labels, and being made to feel so defective! From this experience, I have gained that I myself already have the inner-​knowing, inner-​guidance, knowledge from years of self improvement and workshops, on what is best for me and how to practice them. If you are reading this, please do not give your own power away, especially not to someone like Jane who does not live up to what a therapist is there to help. If you do need extra support, do and find the right therapist who is probably not Jane. Otherwise, if you drop in, you may end up finding like I did that we do already know what’s best if we just get quiet and listen.

I can only speak for myself, I have seen therapists off and on for over 30 years. Jane is very professional, emphatic, a strong listener and good at helping others learn to say «no» to other people’s demands. She helped listen to my issues for 6 months and I moved out of state. I will miss my weekly sessions with her.
I would recommend her and hope that if you see her, you see her with an open heart and trust her. She holds the skills she needs.
I feel sorry for folks like Princess and Jo, they seem to be under the impression that a therapist is there to solve their problems and fix them, but that isn’t the case.

I have been seeing Jane for a few months now and find her services to be very helpful, calming and a good outlet for whatever is bothering me.
I find it very disturbing that other people would attack her on a personal level when they are unhappy with her professional services.
You also have to remember-it’s not up to the therapist to «fix» you. They are there to be a sounding board, support system and offer unbiased advice and suggestion. The patient is ultimately the one who has to work on themselves.
YOU are the only one who can turn your life around.

I had a counseling session with Ms. Steinberg and during the first 5 minutes she fidgeted about in her chair, looked around the room and just was distracted. I was just about to walk out, when I thought– OK one more time— I’m here for help.
It actually never got better with her constraint twitching. I was grateful that our time was up. I actually felt worse — she kept saying things «oh that’s really bad» «oh that’s not good»
Okay I know my life is falling apart, but do I really need to hear that I’m fucked? Any way I had two more free sessions with her through my company’s EAP program and I decided, who needs this– why doesn’t she just hand me a gun with bullets and say «hey call it night»…
I called her after wards, to let her know I wouldn’t be coming back, because I didn’t feel a connection— and thanked her for her time. She actually called me back and said, that yes she understood that we didn’t connect– cause she didn’t either— What is wrong with this woman— No wonder it was free! JANE STEINBERG TOTALLY SUCKS!