Counseling & Psychotherapy in California
Discover Who You Truly Are, and Create the Best Life Possible!
If you’re curious about who you are and why you feel the way you do, I can help. I will help you slow down as we explore what gets in the way of attaining the life you truly want. Over time, our work will transform you: you’ll experience and learn to create a loving relationship with yourself and your parts; your healing journey will create an opening to connect more fully with those you care most about in your life.
Online, Virtual Counseling & Therapy When You Need It Most to …
Alleviate Anxiety, Stress & Panic
Learn the skills and tools to manage anxiety and stress, so you can show up in the world as you truly want and deserve.
Create a Healthier Relationship
Explore who you are and create more intimate, loving relationships by improving your relationship with your-self.
Triumph over Trauma
Discover how trauma-informed therapy can help you let go of old wounds, so you can live your life in the present and create a brighter future.
Better Understand Your Parts with IFS Therapy
Find out how Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy can help you connect with the different parts of yourself, better understand who you are, and feel truly whole.
Create True Healing with Somatic Therapy
Discover how somatic therapy can help you release years of emotional pain and experience more openness and freedom, so you can lead an authentic, joyous life.
Better Understand Your Parts with IFS Therapy
Find out how Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy can help you connect with the different parts of yourself, better understand who you are, and feel truly whole.
Create True Healing with Somatic Therapy
Discover how somatic therapy can help you release years of emotional pain and experience more openness and freedom, so you can lead an authentic, joyous life.
Welcome!
My name is Jackie Brookman. I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 21229) with an online counseling and psychotherapy practice serving individual adults and couples throughout the State of California.
I imagine you are here looking for a therapist because, like many clients I see, you’d like to stop feeling desperate, anxious, confused, stuck, or unable to trust yourself to make decisions without relying on others for their approval. You may also be here because you want to heal some long held childhood pain that interferes with your ability to move forward in your life and make choices that reflect who you are now.
No matter the reason, I am happy to connect and share the ways I can help as a therapist.
Using a combination of Somatic therapy (mind/body connection), (IFS) Internal Family Systems (parts work) and Attachment Skills, our collaboration will help you heal your past – as you get to know your parts – particularly the parts that cling to long-held beliefs that no longer serve your best interests.
Our goal will be to create a place inside where all parts of you can show up – in the present – as you live your life with more authenticity, flexibility and spaciousness.
We’ll explore the stories and narratives you tell yourself and whether they are up to date or connected to an earlier time that no longer exists. Your healing journey will be met with curiosity, and acknowledgement of the decades of pain that’s been waiting for your focused, compassionate attention.
Along the way, you’ll notice where you hold tension, worry, etc. and learn skills to soften those areas; through this process we will bring your entire system up to date, so you’re no longer burdened by wounds of the past.
As traumatized parts heal, you may sense some welcome changes, such as less worry and far less rumination. You may also notice an aversion to subjugating your needs to satisfy the needs of others.
Trust, Calm and Clarity are free to step into, as they find an accommodating home free of emotional chaos and catastrophic thinking.
If you are ready, or just curious about this profound journey, I welcome hearing from you.
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