About Jodi
Jodi Gregory is a licensed counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and works with clients in Iowa. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at practical change and emotional relief.
She uses faith-informed perspectives when that fits a client's values, and she focuses on building self-respect and stronger communication. Sessions often include simple coping skills and goal-focused talk so people can feel steadier day to day.
Background and approach
Jodi pays attention to how past hurts shape current reactions and helps people name those patterns. Her background covers several life challenges, including parenting stress, family of origin issues, abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver strain. She also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, and pain who are worn down by ongoing health worries.
Jodi listens for practical barriers and helps create small, doable steps forward. Clients can expect an approach that is trauma-aware and culturally attentive. Therapy centers on learning concrete tools, improving communication, and rebuilding self-esteem.
Jodi aims to help people reconnect with what matters and reduce the daily weight of worry. She has four years of clinical experience and offers sessions in English. Her work balances empathy with clear, actionable strategies so clients leave sessions with something to try between meetings.
Evidence-based approaches for online anxiety and stress work
Jodi draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One approach emphasizes learning practical coping strategies to manage anxiety symptoms and reduce panic or worry in daily life. These techniques teach breathing, grounding, and thought skills that can interrupt intense reactions and restore calm.Another approach centers on addressing trauma and past hurts in a paced way. This work helps people identify how earlier experiences shape current feelings, name unhelpful patterns, and try new behaviors to change those patterns over time. It supports recovery from abuse, abandonment, and family-related wounds.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods that feel like a good fit. You and the therapist will make adjustments as you learn what works best together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or shorter check-ins, and text or live chat can work for quick updates or when typing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Texas
- Languages
- English
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