About Jamie
Jamie Brandmair is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She practices in Tennessee and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other life challenges. Jamie brings a direct, compassionate approach and aims to make therapy feel manageable and practical.
She uses straightforward conversations to help people name problems and try new ways of coping. Sessions focus on small, clear steps that fit daily life. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on client-centered work to follow each person's goals.
Background and approach
Jamie also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, when trauma memories are part of the concern. Narrative therapy appears in her work to help people reshape the stories they tell about themselves. Motivational Interviewing is used to support changes when someone feels stuck.
Her background includes work in outpatient, inpatient, school-based, detention, and in-home settings. That variety informs a flexible style that adapts to different practical needs and life situations. She understands how stress and anxiety affect sleep, relationships, parenting, and work.
People looking for help with grief, addiction, intimacy issues, ADHD, or career transition will find a practical focus on coping skills and real-life strategies. Jamie accepts clients from outside the United States and conducts sessions in English. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Jamie emphasizes hope and steady progress. She aims to create a space where people can say what matters and take realistic steps toward change.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following a person's goals. The therapist helps people set their own aims and uses reflective conversation to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them. This approach helps with anxiety, sleep problems, mood swings, and stress management.EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is used when trauma memories are part of the issue. It combines focused memory work with guided attention to reduce the intensity of distressing memories. Jamie will work collaboratively to choose which approach fits best. She checks in about goals, preferences, and how each method feels, and then adapts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls are useful for a full-session conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be simpler when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, written reflection, or flexible communication across the week. These options let people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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