Janna holds a master’s degree in School and Applied Child Psychology, a Bachelor of Education from Acadia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with honours from Dalhousie University. Her undergraduate training included research in literacy development and early social learning. She later gained international teaching experience in China and the United Arab Emirates before completing her graduate training at the University of Calgary. In her master’s program, Janna worked in a British Columbia school division, where she conducted psychoeducational assessments, coordinated specialized services, and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to support students with complex needs.
Since joining Moroz Child Psychology in 2018, Janna has built strong therapeutic relationships and feels honoured to support families in navigating difficulties with greater ease. Her therapy work integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for anxiety, depression, and self-esteem, alongside Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) for adolescents managing intense emotions, self-harm, or other high-risk behaviours.
Janna has particular strengths in exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and in supporting clients with attentional and executive functioning challenges. She co-facilitates the office’s social skills program, where she teaches the nuanced, unspoken rules that are essential for social success. Janna also has specialized training in Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), including its application for ARFID, a parent-only program focused on reducing children’s anxiety through supportive changes in caregiver behaviour.
Janna’s clinical background in psychoeducational assessment goes beyond simply delivering a set of standardized scores, focusing on understanding the whole child and the underlying factors contributing to their challenges. Drawing on her classroom experience, Janna crafts personalized, practical treatment plans.
Having spent much of her twenties living abroad, Janna has a lasting love of travel and often visits Canada’s east coast, where she grew up. A former competitive dancer, she continues to enjoy staying connected to dance in her free time, along with simple pleasures such as thrift-shopping, attending comedy shows, and getting lost in a good book.