Jamie Hood, LMFT

Jamie Hood is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, anger, career decisions, depression, life changes, and ADHD.

She trained with a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and has worked in private practice and community settings. Her background includes individual and group work at a shelter for pregnant and homeless women, and counseling in a school-based program serving youth and their families. Those roles involved case coordination, crisis response, and working with school staff and community agencies.

In sessions she often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to clarify how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. She also uses Solution-Focused methods to set practical goals and attachment, existential, and mindfulness techniques when helpful. These approaches are used to reduce symptoms and build self-esteem through concrete steps and conversations.

Her training history includes additional courses such as nonviolent crisis intervention, trauma, anorexia, play therapy, and marital and premarital work through Prepare and Enrich. She also has experience with medication monitoring and coordination when needed in community settings.

Outside work she is a runner and rock climber, and she spends time with her spouse and two young children. She is a recently diagnosed person with Type 1 diabetes and follows ongoing learning about chronic illness and its emotional impact.

How her approaches translate to online work