About Jodie
Jodie Gardner is a Texas-based counselor who brings nine years of clinical experience to her practice. She holds the LPCC credential and the LPC credential and supports people facing addiction, anxiety, mood challenges, and major life changes. Jodie aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.
She focuses on practical ways to reduce symptoms and regain control. Sessions involve talking through current problems, identifying unhelpful patterns, and practicing skills to respond differently.
Background and approach
Jodie draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change thinking and behavior, and uses acceptance-based strategies to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward valued goals. Attachment-focused work and client-centered practices guide how she builds a collaborative relationship. That means she pays attention to patterns in close relationships and offers a steady, nonjudgmental stance while clients make changes.
Therapy is paced by the client's needs and readiness rather than a fixed timetable. Common concerns she addresses include trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, stress, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. She also supports people navigating career stress, caregiver burden, and identity-related concerns such as LGBT matters.
Jodie offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People in Texas can expect straightforward, skills-focused sessions with room for emotional processing and practical planning.
Evidence-Informed Approaches Adapted for Online Care
Jodie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and task-focused, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and addiction-related habits.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice hard emotions without getting stuck and move toward the life they value. ACT can be useful for stress, trauma-related avoidance, and chronic health or pain issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jodie treats approach selection as collaborative and adjusts methods based on a person's goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions. She will check in regularly and adapt plans if something is not working well.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text can fit short check-ins, written skill practice, or support between longer appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other daily demands while keeping a consistent treatment plan.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- 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)
- 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
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas, California
- Languages
- English
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