About Jodie
Jodie Gardner is a licensed counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices from Texas. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and major life changes.
She frames sessions around straightforward conversation and practical skills. Jodie makes room for strong feelings and helps people name what they are going through. She aims for clear steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work covers many common problems, including grief, trauma, stress, sleep trouble, and relationship challenges. She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic health concerns, body image issues, and questions about intimacy or sexual expression. Jodie offers guidance around career stress, self-esteem, and parenting concerns for individual clients.
Clinically she draws from approaches like acceptance and commitment methods, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. That mix lets her tailor sessions to a person’s needs and practical goals. She helps people build awareness, learn new coping skills, and try different ways of responding to difficult thoughts and urges.
If you want direct, down-to-earth help for anxiety or life stressors, Jodie works in a collaborative way. She helps set clear goals and checks in about what’s helpful. The process starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling, then moves into regular sessions by video, phone, chat, or messaging.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences affect current bonds and reactions. Finding the best approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try ideas in session, and adjust methods based on what works. That collaborative process helps match techniques to your needs and preferences rather than sticking to one method. Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health concerns. Video calls are good for full conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when getting on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick coaching between sessions, or a way to reflect in writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into a busy life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English
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