About Giselle
Giselle Jarvis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers therapy in both English and Spanish and practices from California. Her approach is practical and down to earth, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
Giselle has five years of clinical experience working with people facing mood disorders, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She has also supported people dealing with bipolar disorder, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and challenges after childbirth.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with a wide range of diagnoses and life situations, which informs how she tailors care to each person. In sessions she uses techniques like mindfulness, cognitive behavioral strategies, and behavioral activation to help clients change unhelpful patterns. She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior approaches and exposure and response prevention when needed.
Giselle explains techniques in simple terms and practices them together with each person. Her style is collaborative. She helps people set clear goals and teaches practical tools they can use between sessions.
Many clients work on managing intense emotions, improving self esteem, easing panic, or coping with family stress. Giselle describes therapy as a team effort built on trust and steady work. She guides people through problem solving and skill building so they can handle daily stressors better and move toward their goals.
Approaches that help with anxiety and stress online
Giselle uses evidence-based techniques in straightforward ways. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Behavioral Activation emphasizes small, meaningful actions to lift mood and break cycles of avoidance.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice stress reactions and respond with calmer choices. Exposure and response prevention is used when panic or obsessive symptoms are present to gently reduce avoidance and fearful responses. These approaches are explained step by step so clients understand what to expect.
Deciding on the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has helped or not helped before. Together you will try techniques and adjust them based on what fits your needs and preferences.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging which provide flexibility for different schedules. Video lets you work in real time and practice skills with guidance. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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