About Jamie
Jamie Saley is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to help people make practical changes when life feels overwhelming. She focuses on small, achievable steps and offers steady support and accountability as clients try new habits and coping skills. Jamie speaks plainly and meets people where they are without judgment.
She uses approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and build new routines.
Background and approach
Jamie also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how past relationships shape present reactions. Sessions emphasize skill-building, manageable goals, and realistic problem solving. Jamie earned her master's degree in mental health at the University of Central Florida.
Over nine years she has worked in outpatient and inpatient settings, schools, clinics, and substance-use programs. That range informed her practical orientation and respect for people from different backgrounds. Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports people coping with ADHD, addictions, parenting strain, career shifts, and chronic illness. Jamie pays attention to how life events and attachment history shape current struggles. In sessions Jamie blends research-driven techniques with a client-centered attitude.
She helps people set small tasks, track progress, and adjust strategies that aren’t working. The path to change is presented as realistic and collaborative rather than quick or prescriptive.
Approaches that guide online care
Jamie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify personal values and take committed actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear; this approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person's goals and perspectives and emphasizes listening, validation, and collaboration to shape treatment. In addition, Jamie draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationships influence present reactions and to strengthen healthier patterns in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jamie will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She then suggests techniques to try and adjusts the plan based on what fits and what’s effective for that person.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper sessions that benefit from visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when a walk-and-talk fits the day. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when shorter, more frequent contact is preferred. These options help make therapy more flexible around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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