- Focus on goals
- Mindful and relational
- Practical tools
About Jamie
Jamie Hood is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She has nine years of experience working in community and clinical settings, including school-based programs and shelters. Jamie focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and parenting strains.
She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Jamie pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and helps clients set concrete goals. She often blends mindfulness and attachment ideas with problem-solving to address daily struggles and improve self-worth.
Her background includes work with youth in a MediCal-funded school program and three years providing individual and group support at a shelter for pregnant and homeless women. Those roles involved case coordination, crisis support, and helping people facing substance use, domestic violence, and housing instability.
In therapy, Jamie uses Cognitive Behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses solution-focused methods to build short-term goals and forward momentum. Additional influences from client-centered, existential, and attachment-based work shape how she listens and responds.
Jamie holds a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and the LMFT credential in California. Outside work she enjoys running, rock climbing, and reading, and she is a parent balancing family life with clinical work. She aims to create a calm, practical environment where clients can speak freely and take manageable steps toward change.
She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Jamie pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and helps clients set concrete goals. She often blends mindfulness and attachment ideas with problem-solving to address daily struggles and improve self-worth.
Her background includes work with youth in a MediCal-funded school program and three years providing individual and group support at a shelter for pregnant and homeless women. Those roles involved case coordination, crisis support, and helping people facing substance use, domestic violence, and housing instability.
In therapy, Jamie uses Cognitive Behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses solution-focused methods to build short-term goals and forward momentum. Additional influences from client-centered, existential, and attachment-based work shape how she listens and responds.
Jamie holds a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and the LMFT credential in California. Outside work she enjoys running, rock climbing, and reading, and she is a parent balancing family life with clinical work. She aims to create a calm, practical environment where clients can speak freely and take manageable steps toward change.
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