About Jamie
Jamie OConnor is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and parenting challenges. Jamie approaches conversations with respect, sensitivity, and compassion to make the process feel possible for someone taking a first step toward change.
She uses practical, goal-focused methods to help people cope with life changes, addiction-related struggles, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions address everyday problems like sleep and eating struggles as well as deeper patterns such as attachment and abandonment worries. Her work also covers concerns tied to identity and LGBT issues. Jamie blends several therapy styles to match what each person needs.
She helps people notice thoughts and feelings, try new behavior patterns, and find clearer ways to communicate. The pace and focus are adapted to what matters most to the individual. Clients can expect straightforward conversations about measurable steps and small experiments to test what helps.
Jamie pays attention to family of origin themes, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress when those areas are relevant. She also supports people facing career shifts, anger, codependency, and commitment concerns. Her approach welcomes people dealing with trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and avoidant personality patterns.
Jamie aims to empower people to make choices that reflect their values and to build more stable routines. She works in English and accepts international clients.
How Jamie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple experiments and skills to reduce unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, sleep, and mood problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, offering empathy and reflective listening to help build insight and self-direction.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and adapt techniques over time. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different methods and keep what is most helpful.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit daily life. Video works well for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be better when a simpler check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited. Messaging and live chat let people share updates and get brief support between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English