About Abbe
Abbe Goodman is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, relationship struggles, and low self-esteem. Her style is direct and steady, aimed at making hard conversations feel more manageable.
Goodman uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns. She listens for what matters most and helps clients try small changes between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace set by the client, with clear goals and real-world steps. She has long experience working across different life stages and situations. That background informs how she supports people facing abandonment worries, attachment issues, body image concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, or dissociation.
She also addresses problems such as codependency, commitment fears, communication breakdowns, and control struggles. Abbe pays attention to how eating and mood connect to daily routines and relationships. She helps people identify triggers, build coping strategies, and strengthen motivation.
The work includes practical skills for calmer thinking and steadier moods. Her approach is supportive and nonjudgmental. She encourages people to take manageable steps toward what matters to them.
If someone wants straightforward guidance from an experienced California LMFT, Goodman offers that steady, experienced presence.
How evidence-based approaches fit online therapy
Abbe draws on well-established, evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses teaches skills to manage anxious thoughts and physical stress symptoms; it helps people notice triggers and practice breathing, grounding, and thought-testing exercises to reduce worry and tension. Another approach emphasizes behavior change and routine building to improve mood and eating patterns; it breaks larger goals into small, concrete steps and uses regular check-ins to track progress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels useful and workable in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good when visual cues and face-to-face conversation help progress. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or when video bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, school, caregiving, or travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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