How Jodie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas, California
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Jodie
Jodie Gardner is a licensed professional counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices from Texas. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support and encourages clients to take realistic steps toward feeling better.
Jodie helps people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also supports those coping with life changes, burnout and compassion fatigue, sleep or eating concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges tied to ADHD and bipolar mood concerns.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to family dynamics, attachment issues, and caregiving stress. Her style centers on listening first and shaping therapy around each person. Sessions are collaborative and aimed at building skills that apply outside the session.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches alongside acceptance-based strategies to help people manage strong emotions and urges. Jodie draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and the ways early experiences affect current reactions. She also uses client-centered techniques to keep conversations grounded in each person's values and goals.
Practical skill-building, like emotion regulation and coping strategies, is mixed with space to process loss or trauma. People who prefer clear, actionable steps and a steady therapeutic presence tend to fit well with her approach.
She invites newcomers to take a small first step - complete a short questionnaire and schedule a session - and she will work with them to find a comfortable pace and plan.
What Jodie works with
Everything Jodie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Jodie's practice.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jodie lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting swept away by them and then choose actions that match their personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change patterns that worsen mood or stress. It often helps with anxiety, insomnia, and managing urges related to addiction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect present reactions; it can be helpful for intimacy issues, family conflict, and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and comfort. That may mean mixing strategies from different approaches and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a shorter check-in option, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
Questions people ask about Jodie
What concerns does she help with?
She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and relationship issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical, combining listening with skill building. Sessions focus on real-world strategies people can use between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Jodie has nine years of clinical experience working with adults on a variety of mental health and life transition issues.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices from Texas with California LPCC recognition noted.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.