About Jeanette
Jeanette Abney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of experience in California. She focuses on stress and anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship strain, family conflict, and anger. She offers a calm presence and steady support for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Her approach centers on building an open space where clients can talk without judgment. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps people try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and straightforward, aimed at small changes that add up over time. Jeanette draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address emotional pain and unhealthy habits. She helps people manage anxiety, cope with urges around drugs or alcohol, and repair communication in close relationships.
She also supports those facing issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and caregiving for aging relatives. Across two decades of work she has helped people navigate separation, domestic violence aftermath, cancer-related stress, and family-of-origin wounds. Her style blends empathy with clear steps clients can try between sessions.
The focus is on skills that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Sessions are offered in English and Jeanette accepts international clients. She works by video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging, matching the format to each person’s needs.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire to get started.
How practical therapy works online
Jeanette uses a few core evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety and related problems. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing different thoughts and behaviors to reduce worry and stress. Another approach teaches coping skills to manage urges and cravings for people working on drug or alcohol addiction, with steps people can practice between sessions. These methods are straightforward and aimed at changing patterns that keep problems going.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust as progress is made. This collaborative process helps pick strategies that feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make work on these issues more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be easier when someone needs a quicker check-in or lower data use. Live chat and text messaging let clients share thoughts between appointments and get brief support or homework check-ins. These options make therapy fit around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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