About Janel Te'o

Janel joined Ohana Wellness Maui in March 2024. She enjoys collaborating with clients to nurture hope, achieve their goals, and improve their quality of life through individual, couples, or family counseling. Janel utilizes her skills and expertise in treating depression, anxiety, trauma & PTSD, couples distress, infidelity, sleep issues, family conflict, grief & loss, life transitions, multicultural concerns, blended families, monogamy, polyamory, limerence, obsessions and compulsions, panic, burnout, attachment issues, aging and geriatric issues, aggression and violence, adoption/foster care issues, caregiver issues, career coaching, stress, hoarding, midlife crisis, LGBTQ+ & sexuality, women's issues, suicidal ideation, religious trauma, sexual assault, cultural identity issues, incarceration and re-entry. 

Janel is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Santa Monica College, and Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. Janel actively engages in various learning communities and trained in couples counseling at Gottman Institute, the Unifying Framework for Psychotherapy at Therapy that Works Institute, Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Teens at Portland DBT Institute, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) at PRATI and Polaris Insight Center, Program on Negotiation & Dispute Resolution at Harvard Law School Executive Education, and completed her clinical practicum in psychodynamic individual adult & couples therapy at Maple Counseling in Beverly Hills, CA. 

Janel is under the clinical supervision of Yvonne Manupuna, LMFT.