Jamie Hood, LMFT

Jamie Hood is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She has worked in mental health since 2012 and brings nine years of post-degree clinical experience to her practice. Jamie draws on practical approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns.

She has supported people in a variety of community and clinical settings, including private practices and programs serving pregnant and homeless women. That work included individual and group sessions for people facing substance use, domestic violence, depression, and codependency. Jamie has also provided school-based counseling and coordinated with school staff and community agencies to support youth and families.

Jamie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, and solution-focused techniques that emphasize present goals and small steps forward. She also draws on attachment, existential, and mindfulness approaches to help clients build self-esteem and cope with life changes.

Her experience includes work with a wide range of concerns such as parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating issues, anger, career worries, and ADHD. Jamie has additional focus areas that include attachment issues, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems.

Jamie keeps learning to stay current with practice and policy. Outside of work she enjoys running, rock climbing, and reading, and she is a parent. She aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through hard things and take clear steps toward their goals.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Jamie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that lead to distress. CBT breaks problems into specific thoughts, feelings, and actions, which can make goals and steps easier to see and practice in daily life.

She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current connections and reactions. That work can help people understand patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating with partners, friends, or family.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jamie treats therapy as a collaboration and will help you choose or combine methods based on your goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in sessions.

Online sessions can fit into busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let you use visual cues and do deeper conversational work, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during brief breaks, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent progress while adapting to daily life commitments.