About Jackie
Jackie M O'Malley Gomez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adolescents and adults who are dealing with depression, trauma, and ADHD-related concentration challenges. Her approach is practical and respectful, aimed at helping people take small steps forward.
Jackie starts by listening to each person’s story and identifying strengths they already have. She uses straightforward tools to reduce panic, improve focus, and ease overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with real techniques to practice between meetings. Her background includes long-term clinical work with trauma, post-traumatic stress, and life changes such as adoption and parenting strain. She also brings experience supporting first responders, veterans, and people coping with isolation or seasonal mood shifts.
That experience informs a calm, structured style. Jackie often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and body-focused work to address how thoughts and sensations feed distress. She helps people notice patterns, try new responses, and track small wins.
The result is steady progress rather than quick fixes. She values collaboration and invites questions about goals and pacing. People who want practical strategies and steady support will find clear guidance and patience in her sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Jackie often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, test new ways of thinking, and build step-by-step habits that reduce anxiety and panic. These methods work well for worry, panic disorder, and depressive thinking because they focus on practical tasks and measurable change.She also integrates mindfulness practices that teach present-moment noticing and simple breath or body awareness. Mindfulness can reduce rumination, ease stress reactions, and improve attention for people with ADHD or sleep and mood problems.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Jackie collaborates with each person to match methods to goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Clients help set priorities, and she offers tools to try between sessions so people can see what helps most.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, sharing progress notes, or getting skills reminders between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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