Internships
As part of her training, she interned at Amethyst House in New Haven, Connecticut. The facility is for women in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse. Their program includes a therapeutic nursery, addiction counseling and special "Watch, Wait and Wonder" sessions for building attachment between mothers and their children.

She also interned at The New Learning Center in Westport, Connecticut. Here, her responsibilities included individual, couple and family therapy sessions, plus co-leading social skills groups for those with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), including autism and Asperger's Syndrome.

Marriage and Family Therapist with Expanding Roles and Responsibilities
After graduation with her master's in marriage and family therapy from Fairfield University, Mrs. Bohlander joined the staff at The New Learning Center in Westport as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Her role soon expanded to include Director of Social Skills Planning. Her responsibilities included the creation and co-leading of social skills groups for ADHD and PDD children.

In 2001, Mrs. Bohlander became partner and vice president of Associates for Children and Families in Norwalk, Connecticut. For five years, she provided comprehensive psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families, including infertility counseling, adoption support and working with special needs families. Her partner responsibilities included financial management and computer support as well as social skills group creation, evaluations and coordination.

Janneta Bohlander & Associates
In September, 2005, Mrs. Bohlander created Janneta Bohlander & Associates, offering therapy services and support for children and adults, social skills groups, adoption support and school consultations. Her office is on East Avenue in Norwalk.

Her Experience in the Corporate World 
Previous to her involvement in marriage and family counseling, Mrs. Bohlander worked for nearly fifteen years in the corporate world, as a financial consultant for Shearson Lehman Hutton in Greenwich, Connecticut; an account representative for British Telecom in New York City; and Director of Development, overseeing a global team of 40 individuals located in North America, UK, Italy and France, for Hyperion Software Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut. She was also an OnTrack consulting manager and Director of Enterprise Product Marketing for Hyperion, to name just a few positions that she held with that corporation.

Rising through the ranks at these different companies is what led Mrs. Bohlander to become interested in what makes people do what they do and what makes systems work, e.g., departments, families, relationships.

Before leaving the corporate world, Mrs. Bohlander worked as support staff at Project Return in Westport, Connecticut, while still working full-time for Hyperion. At Project Return, a progressive, therapeutic group home which serves as an intervention to prevent hospitalization, she participated in one-to-one discussions with residents, providing consistent support and direction, and joined in staff meetings. She also attended training sessions in Borderline Personality Disorders, Adolescent Violence and Eating Disorders.

After nine months, working at Project Return, Mrs. Bohlander made a life-changing decision to pursue a masters degree so that she could become a certified, licensed marriage and family therapist.