About Jaime
Jaime Askew is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 24 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and work through trauma and relationship problems. Jaime aims to make therapy a straightforward, steady process for people who feel overwhelmed by life changes.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about hard feelings. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Background and approach
Jaime listens first, then helps set small, realistic steps toward change. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a range of concerns including depression, grief, bipolar challenges, and attention differences such as ADHD. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, body image, and problems tied to caregiving and burnout.
Jaime draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape each plan. People seeking help with parenting stress, adoption or foster care questions, blended family issues, or career transitions will find a direct, problem-solving approach. She also supports those coping with relationship separation, communication problems, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Jaime works to empower clients to make changes that fit their lives. Her style is practical, patient, and geared toward building coping tools. She encourages people to try modest steps and evaluate what helps as therapy progresses.
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy helps
Jaime draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and steady progress. One approach she uses emphasizes practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes that can reduce overwhelm in daily life. Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process painful experiences at a pace that feels manageable and safe, often pairing talk and problem-solving to rebuild routines and stability.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jaime will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those goals. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most, so therapy stays collaborative and goal-focused.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a fuller conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can work when internet bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing support between sessions and can suit busy schedules or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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