About Jamielyn
Jamielyn "Jamie" Yates is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward, calm support for common struggles like depression, addiction, low self-esteem, and coping with big life changes. Jamie focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Jamie draws on teaching-driven approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She uses mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to build coping skills and clarify goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are action-oriented and aimed at making daily life easier to manage. With five years of clinical experience, Jamie has worked with people dealing with loneliness, grief, and personality-related challenges. She also addresses issues such as codependency, communication difficulties, guilt and shame, and struggles related to gender identity and non-monogamous relationships.
Her background includes hospice and end-of-life counseling and support for people facing self-harm concerns. In conversation she keeps a nonjudgmental tone and listens for what matters most to each person. Jamie helps clients identify patterns that once protected them but now cause distress, and she works with them totry new responses.
The emphasis is on small, manageable changes that add up. People who choose Jamie can expect clear explanations, step-by-step skills, and a focus on rebuilding a life that feels worth living. She encourages collaboration and mutual planning so progress fits each person’s pace and goals.
How Jamie Uses Practical Therapies Online
Jamie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on testing thoughts and trying different actions so daily stress and anxiety feel more manageable.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas, which center on building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT-style techniques can help when strong emotions or relationship patterns get in the way of everyday functioning.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Jamie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they choose strategies and adjust them over time to match the individual's needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still working on concrete tools and steps.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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