About Jeanette
Jeanette Salinas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience in mental health. She earned her master's degree and LCSW in Sacramento, California, and has spent her career helping people navigate deep loss, trauma, and major life changes. She approaches work at the client's pace and emphasizes building trust from the first meeting.
Her practice focuses on grief and loss, including pet loss and bereavement after illness or caregiving.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns. Jeanette has experience with mood disorders and complex presentations such as bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive concerns. Sessions are collaborative and steady.
She uses practical strategies to help people manage overwhelming feelings and rebuild a sense of direction. The room is used to talk through painful memories, practice new ways of coping, and set clear steps for moving forward. Jeanette draws on several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, narrative work, and solution-focused tools.
These are mixed to match a person's goals rather than following a single script. Over years of practice she has developed stepwise approaches to help people move forward after major transitions. She has worked with a wide age range from children through older adults and has supported caregivers of terminally or chronically ill family members.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for online work.
Approaches for online grief and anxiety care
Jeanette uses cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused ideas to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new skills. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Trauma-focused therapy helps people work through traumatic memories at a manageable pace and develop stronger ways to cope with triggers.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy when intense emotions make daily life hard. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills, which can be helpful for relationship strain and overwhelming stress. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process and she will discuss options with each person. Together they decide which methods match the client's goals, comfort level, and pace of change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you see facial cues and practice skills in real time, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still focusing on practical steps and emotional recovery.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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