About Abbe
Abbe Goodman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 40 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, eating issues, low self-esteem, and depression. Her approach is calm and encouraging, aimed at helping people feel more able to face daily challenges.
Goodman keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She invites people to talk about what feels hardest and helps them find steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations are nonjudgmental and paced to each person’s comfort level. Over four decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including attachment and abandonment worries, body image and eating struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. She also has experience with mood and dissociative difficulties and other complex presentations.
Her background centers on building trust and steady progress rather than quick fixes. She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients test new ways of coping. Parents or caregivers reading this should know she emphasizes clear, simple steps when supporting adolescents.
People who choose Goodman often want a skilled, experienced clinician who speaks plainly and focuses on practical change. She helps clients set realistic goals and works with them to reach those goals at a comfortable pace.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Goodman uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear steps and real-life skills. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with manageable alternatives to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Another approach focuses on improving communication and relationship habits so people can express needs, set boundaries, and resolve recurring conflicts more effectively.Finding the best method is part of the work. She works collaboratively with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and comfort. Over time she adjusts methods based on what helps most, combining techniques to fit the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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