About Jamie
Jamie Peckous is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to address everyday problems. Jamie works from North Carolina and speaks English.
She focuses on common life struggles such as low self-esteem, depression, grief, and parenting strain. She also helps people facing career stress, relationship communication problems, and the upheaval of major life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care matters, postpartum depression, and challenges young adults often face. Jamie emphasizes that clients are the experts on their own lives. Sessions look at patterns that get in the way and build small, realistic steps toward change.
Conversations tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with tools a person can use between meetings. With twelve years of experience as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she has worked with a range of concerns related to mood and adjustment. Her style combines practical problem solving with attention to personal values and stories that shape how someone sees themselves.
People who reach out can expect a collaborative tone and clear next steps. Jamie aims to support motivation, reduce overwhelming feelings, and strengthen coping skills so everyday life feels more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety, lift mood, or improve confidence. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what matters to them and boosts readiness for change. It uses guided conversation to build motivation for steps like improving parenting routines, managing substance-free goals, or starting a new career direction.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals and daily life. Together they will try methods, check progress, and shift course when needed so sessions feel relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for longer therapy conversations and when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, skill practice, and when someone needs flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare, and busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English