About Jean
Jean McBride is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Colorado with 30 years of clinical experience. She brings a warm, intuitive style to sessions and treats therapy as a collaborative effort. Jean believes people can change and aims to empower those who come for help with everyday struggles.
Her approach is practical and interactive. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. She uses techniques that help people cope with anxiety, stress, grief, and depression while improving relationships and communication.
Background and approach
Jean has extensive experience working with issues around divorce, blended families, and parenting challenges. She has written books on step-parenting, talking with children about divorce, and parenting when a child has a parent with borderline or narcissistic traits. She also spent many years teaching classes for divorcing parents in Colorado.
In the therapy room she combines client-centered listening with solution-focused problem solving and mindfulness practices. That mix aims to reduce overwhelm, sharpen choices, and build steadier day-to-day coping. Sessions are conversational and aimed at practical change.
People often come for help with self-esteem, compassion fatigue, anger, or family-of-origin problems. Jean helps clients name priorities and try new behaviors that fit their life. She works by outlining options, offering tools, and checking what is most useful.
If a person wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Jean uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to connect with clients across Colorado.
Approaches that fit online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the person. The therapist reflects concerns, clarifies priorities, and helps clients make their own decisions. This approach can be helpful when people need support sorting through relationship and family challenges.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and calm the body and mind. It helps with anxiety, stress, grief, and coping with life changes by offering short exercises people can use between sessions.
Solution-focused therapy aims at practical change by identifying small, achievable steps toward specific goals. It is useful when someone wants concrete strategies for communication, parenting, or managing anger and overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try, based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is flexible and revisited as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical access to care. Video calls let the therapist observe body language and keep longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework discussion, or quick coaching between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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