About Jorie
Jorie Wehrell is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Washington with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress alongside relationship, family, and parenting concerns. Jorie uses clear, practical methods to help people find new ways of coping and relating to others.
Her background includes work in therapeutic group homes, juvenile justice, community mental health, and independent practice. That variety shaped a flexible style that adapts to different life situations and challenges.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps clients try different responses. Jorie’s approach is collaborative and client centered. She treats therapy as a partnership and works with each person to set concrete goals.
Sessions often combine cognitive behavioral techniques with interpersonal and attachment-minded ideas to produce short-term plans and long-term insight. In sessions she helps people untangle personal stories and family patterns that influence mood, behavior, and relationships. Typical topics include depression, grief, addiction concerns, intimacy issues, and life changes like pregnancy or parenting.
She also supports people facing career stress, identity concerns, and issues connected to mood disorders. Practical skill-building is part of her work. Clients can expect walk-throughs of communication tools, coping strategies for anxiety, and experiments to test new ways of relating.
The aim is steady progress toward whatever goals the person names.
How attachment and CBT approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those patterns shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions can use this approach to look at repeat interactions and try different responses in real life.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and aims to create a nonjudgmental space for them to name goals and concerns. Through video or text sessions this approach gives room for pacing, reflection, and the therapist's responsive listening.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adjust methods and try techniques that match the client’s needs and comfort level.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work on relationship patterns and emotion-focused exercises. Phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to continue skill practice between sessions or to reach out for brief support. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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