Check Out Janis Cohen’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Janis Cohen.

Hi Janis, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I didn’t come face to face with my authentic truth and my true self-worth until I was 51 years old.

It was a sunny Wednesday in the fall of 2021, when my brother drove with me to my ex-boyfriend’s house to get the few belongings that I had left there. I had ended the relationship for the 4th and final time- just a few days before; after dating him on and off for two years.

It was time for me to close this door on this relationship so that I could get on with working through the heartache and pain that comes from severing the energetic ties to your partner and mending a broken heart.

There was a soft and subtle knowing inside me, though, that signaled to me that by ending this relationship, I was closing out a thirty yearlong karmic cycle that was trying to teach me how to cultivate self-worth and self-respect.
My soul knew that the most profitable and impactful way for me to learn this lesson would be through my romantic relationships; the one place where I repeatedly and desperately searched for my value and worth but never found it. And, the one place where who I was would be mirrored back to me in who I become involved with.

My mind flipped through a mental rolodex of every romantic relationship I’d ever had—searching for the common thread. I was desperate to make sense of the painful, self-sabotaging pattern I kept repeating, hoping that somewhere in the review, clarity would finally come.

The lesson lesson of learning about my self-worth and value has proven to be one of the most challenging lessons of my life…
…that’s why it took me 51 years to learn it.

I carried a lifelong burden of believing I wasn’t good enough—a belief that shaped every decision I made and kept placing me in situations that reflected my own self-betrayal.

I wasn’t taught by anyone about how to go within, hold myself accountable, and get right with myself first. I didn’t know how to view my life objectively so that I could heal it. Rather, I held everything and everyone else accountable for my pain for most of my life, as victims do.

The anger and blame for how fucked up I felt my life was, came out in so many other directions; my parents, friends whose lives I coveted, and, of course, God, who I believed was ultimately responsible for punishing me over and over and over again with heartache and pain.

I was angry at my parents and blamed them for not preparing me better for life. For not teaching me how to really recover from a breakup (taking time to learn the lessons and grow from it.), for not teaching me how to cultivate independence and confidence to stand my ground and date smart, and for not teaching me how to recognize my inherent self-worth. Sure, I felt extremely loved and cared for by them and at the same time, I consistently felt lost in life, uncertain about most everything.

But the anger didn’t stop there. I was furious with every past partner—blaming them for their indecision, for keeping me at arm’s length, and for making me feel like an afterthought. I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t see that I was different—why they couldn’t recognize my worth.

I was secretly angry at my friends who seemed to have found their mate very early on in life. I felt incredibly envious and jealous of them because they were living their lives in the ways that I so desperately wanted to but wasn’t.

I didn’t understand anything at all about what my authentic truth was.

I didn’t understand that, before I could feel valuable in a relationship with someone else, I needed to become highly valuable to myself first.

Back then, I didn’t realize that every single person in my life had been handpicked by my soul, long before I incarnated, to play a role in my life; teacher or student. My soul mapped all of my life experiences out before I was even born. And, all of my previous boyfriends were chosen to teach me about cultivating self-love through their treatment of me.

Because I lacked a great deal of self-awareness early on in my life and didn’t, yet, understand my role in shaping my own life, I hadn’t taken full ownership of the pain I had unknowingly created for myself. I didn’t realize I was powerful beyond measure—fully capable of changing my life at any moment.
Instead, I felt powerless and resourceless.

When a woman (or anyone, for that matter) feels helpless to change her life, the last person she holds accountable is herself.

I gave my power away repeatedly in relationships by becoming who they needed me to be to sustain the relationship, while abandoning what I wanted, needed, and who I truly was.

I tried everything I could think of to *fix* myself – I mean the list is long. I saw a therapist, read countless books on relationships, journaled until my fingers cramped, talked (complained!!) to my friends ad nauseum, studied manifestation, repeated affirmations, consulted psychics… truly everything.

I would act like I had it all together in public and then go home and weep in private.
– it all made it WORSE- nothing helped!

And here’s the kicker, I remember saying to myself, “I failed again. I was STILL not able to be my true self in a relationship, even at 51 years old.

When I actually took time to reflect on myself in these relationships, I realized that I kept putting up with things that didn’t make me feel good. I would hear myself saying silently, “Why did I just do that? What was wrong with me? I must be really fucked up. So much self-loathing!!!

This doesn’t make sense. I’m smart. I have a Masters Degree. I’m kind. I treat others well. I am a good person with a go-getter personality. Why the heck can’t I figure this relationship thing out? Why don’t I know how to find someone who will love and accept me for me?”

I felt hopeless. Depressed. Heart broken.

Besides my age going up, my mental health, self esteem and confidence went way, way down.

You might be asking, Why was this karmic debt cycle so long?
Because I didn’t learn the lessons when I had the chance, so I called in more experiences to teach me what I didn’t yet learn.

You also might be asking: Why did these lessons play out in my romantic relationships primarily?
This was the only way to show me how profoundly I had been dishonoring myself. Through my relationships—especially with men who were conflicted, self-centered, and unwilling to commit—I was forced to confront my own reflection. Their behavior mirrored the ways I had abandoned, overlooked, and betrayed myself.

You might ask, What had I finally learned that ended this cycle?
I learned how to truly honor and respect myself. This means that I stopped looking towards my romantic partners to validate me and choose me. Instead, I began to love and validate myself first so that I can feel whole and complete on my own.

I learned that seeking out a romantic partner from need, lack, and desperation wasn’t going to get me the kind of healthy, full, and loving relationship I was looking for.

I learned to let go of the outcome and embrace living as a woman who was already enough; whole and complete. And, living from that place would allow me to make peace with myself for my past. I became “good with myself” in all ways.

The moment when I became “HER” was the moment that my life changed forever. I became a woman who finally understood what it meant to love herself first, to live authentically and unapologetically–without fear of being judged or rejected– and to stand in her power; firmly and gracefully.

When I became “HER”, I knew that my life belonged to me. And I realized that I am the most important person in my life, first, foremost and always.
I had finally cultivated self-reverence, self-honor, and self-respect.

And, this is what lead me to helping other women learn how to honor themselves without guilt or resistance so that they, too, can feel solid about who they are, stand in their certainty and strength, and make decisions that are in their own enlightened self-interest.

I have worked with hundreds of women over 33 years as The Intuitive Therapist, (I combine my psychic gifts in my therapeutic work as a clairvoyant, empath and psychic medium), to help women “get right with themselves”, to fully accept themselves, to understand what drives their decision making, and to choose themselves first, 100% of the time, with courage, strength and resilience.

This year, however, I have experienced some of the most profound changes in my life. The past 12 months have shaken me to my core in every part of my life…every single part of my life has been uprooted, rerouted, and sifted through so that I would have to eliminate every single person, belief, and behavior that is holding me back from leveling up and becoming the highest version of myself that I am meant to become.

From my relationship with myself to my relationship with my husband. From what was my passion and purpose in my private practice, to Spirit ending my private practice for good, so that I can truly shift direction and head towards the second chapter of my life’s purpose…which hasn’t entirely been revealed to me other than knowing that I am to become a world renowned healer, mentor, teacher and guide to others by using my current psychic gifts along with other latent and soon to be activated energetic healing gifts to help the new wave of spiritually gifted children (lightworkers) to light the world up and become the next generation of lightworker leaders, changemakers, and teachers.

My book, The Intuitive Therapist, was written in 2016 for therapists, coaches and counselors and chronicles my story and the experiences that shaped me as a woman and a therapist up until that point in my life. The book also clearly teaches the readers how to identify, use and trust their intuition and gifts to help their clients expand and grow at an accelerated rate while building a thriving private practice.

My podcast, The Intuitive Therapist Podcast, was launched in 2017 and has had over 300,000 downloads. While Spirit guided me away from continuing to create new podcast episode content, the podcast, to this day, remains alive for anyone who needs to listen to it. According to numerous listener feedback, it has been a key resource for them to learn how to understand themselves and others more keenly as well as navigate all parts of life with greater ease and clarity. I take great pride in the impact that both my book and podcast have had on others. Truly, a dream come true.

So, as I come to the end of this submission for the interview, in truth, I am truly happy to talk about what I’ve share with you here. And, should Spirit give me the go ahead and open the door back open for me to take on female clients who need my help in this way, I would be more than happy to do that.

Right now, I wait for Spirit to reveal the next steps for me on this new career path that is slowly unfolding for me.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Around the age of 8 or so, I knew that I would be helping others; but as an 8-year-old, I had no idea what that meant. At that time, I felt a strong pull. towards helping children. And, when I finally earned my master’s degree in social work and then becoming a licensed clinical therapist, I spent the first 18 years of my career working with children and families in their homes, in court systems, in child psychiatry units, and in private practice. And I loved it! It’s felt like such a natural fit to work with children. And then my life took a turn.

Little did I know that one moment, in 2008, would change the trajectory of my life – for the rest of my life. In 2008, my clairvoyance, psychic and mediumship gifts opened up and since then, I’ve been come to be known as The Intuitive Therapist. (I have since trademarked those words). Where I have combined my clinical expertise with my psychic and mediumship gifts to help clients overcome their challenges quickly.

All of a sudden, I jumped timelines and now I was a different woman AND a very different therapist. Through my third eye, I would see images, people, places, emotions, relationships, and core issues in a single moment, which allowed me the opportunity to help clients at an insanely rapid rate. Most of my clients experienced radical shifts in their awareness and mindset within 30 minutes or less in session and their time in therapy was cut down to 3 months or less– instead of 3 years- with a traditional therapist.

I wouldn’t trade my gifts for anything in the world. As an empath, I feel everything all of the time and that can be really tough…and it definitely has been. But being as highly sensitive as I am, has helped he help thousands of clients who have been searching for someone who can pick up on their core challenges and identify critically effective solutions so they can go and live their lives instead of being in therapy prison, processing the same crap in every session and getting nowhere week after week, and year after year.

My practice shifted, after that, to working with women who wanted to understand and better utilize their psychic and mediumship gifts and that was so much fun. Then, that morphed into me helping women in midlife, learn how to honor themselves without guilt or resistance…the same way that I had learned to honor and respect myself as I became a midlifer.

I am most proud of how committed I am to being a really mentally healthy woman. I stand more in my truth now, without fear of consequence, than ever before. I am strong, intact, powerful and one of the most talented and gifted therapists anyone could ever meet or work with. And, I am most proud of myself that I can say what I just said, own it 100%, and still be a humble woman. Too often, women shy away from speaking out loud about how good they are and what they are good at. I have attempted to change that narrative through my work with amazing women!

I absolutely loved and still love helping women see their divinity and tap into their inherent truth and worth. It’s a view that I wouldn’t trade for anything else in the world.

As I mentioned, this year, 2025, though, has been a year that, again, changed the trajectory of my life. After a program launch, that was geared to women in midlife who wanted to cultivate a more fulfilling midlife experience, that resulted in no purchases, Spirit took me on a year’s long journey, where I experienced several dark nights of the soul.

The lights went dark for me, much of this year (clarity didn’t exist and I had no sense of certainty about what was happening or what was coming next. All I could do was work through the resistance and learn to trust Source more and more. Every aspect of my life changed because it was stripped of something massive. Professionally, Spirit ended my private practice of 17 years and has given me breadcrumbs about what’s next. It’s been a year of returning back to the truth of who I am and shedding all previous versions of me. My podcast, called The Intuitive Therapist, that began in 2017, came to a halt as well.

I have always worked on myself, since I was 25 years old. But, never have I ever experienced such a long period of time where my life essentially changed in every way but also, moved as slow as molasses!

So right now, it’s my understanding that I am making a hard left into the unknown, and therefor, only have a small sense of the population (children) that I will likely return back to working with but in a spiritual leadership capacity. That path has yet to reveal itself fully.

What sets me apart from others? I am as real as it gets. I use my life and the wisdom I’ve gained to help others cultivate shortcuts in their growth and expansion. I know who I am and I know that I am a master at my craft. And, most importantly, my psychic gifts are my well-known secret weapons. And, my words carry unique energy signatures that allow my clients to hear things from me that they might not otherwise be open to hearing and that registers with each client specifically.

Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
I am a lifetime student and teacher. I teach what I learn ( part of my soul purpose is to “learn, grow, and teach”) and I am constantly looking to know more and grow. I will never give up on myself and I will never settle for unhappiness in any part of my life.
Once I commit to something, I am all in.
I’ve become successful because what you see is what you get. I am relatable and can easily establish rapport with most anyone.
I know there are always others who know more than me and I am eager to learn from them in areas that I am unfamiliar with.
I trust in my intuition and my psychic gifts 100%.
I genuinely want to make this world a better place and to leave my mark on the world….my specific energetic signature.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.janisrcohen.com
• Instagram: @theintuitivetherapist
• Facebook: the intuitive therapist
• Youtube: @theintuitivetherapist9572

Image Credits
Pitter Kalpak Goughnour (photographer)