About Jamie
Jamie Pereira is a licensed clinical social worker in California. She brings five years as a clinical social worker and broader professional experience in mental health and medical settings. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by strong emotions or life changes.
Jamie uses straightforward, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those facing addictions, grief, mood disorders including bipolar and depression, and trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
She also helps with sleep and eating concerns, intimacy-related issues, and parenting stress. Her work emphasizes building on a person's strengths. She listens to each person’s story and helps them find small, doable steps forward.
Sessions focus on coping skills, clearer routines, and improving day-to-day functioning. Jamie has experience supporting people through complex medical diagnoses, co-occurring conditions, and hospice or end-of-life concerns. She also addresses issues such as chronic pain, codependency, and first responder stress.
This range means she can offer practical strategies for many overlapping problems. She works with adults who want to reduce distress and build coping skills. Jamie accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
Her CA LCSW license is CA LCSW 108104.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jamie draws on practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and routines. One approach emphasizes behavioral strategies to change unhelpful habits and improve sleep, eating, and daily structure; this helps when symptoms are tied to disrupted routines or low energy. Another approach centers on coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance and build confidence.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Jamie listens to each person's goals and life situation, then adjusts techniques to match needs and preferences. Over time she checks in and refines the plan so therapy stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, between-session support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English