About Jeanette
Jeanette Salinas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of practice in California. She earned her master’s degree and LCSW in Sacramento more than 30 years ago. Her background centers on grief and loss, and she brings long experience helping people after big life changes.
She focuses on grief related to many kinds of loss, including pet loss and transitions. Trauma and PTSD are part of her work alongside mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and major depression.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with chronic illness or caring for an elderly or terminally ill relative. Sessions are paced to the individual. She emphasizes building trust first, then moving forward at a speed that feels manageable.
She has developed stages clients can use to make practical progress after a major change. Her approach draws on evidence-informed methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. These tools are applied to day-to-day problems such as anxiety, anger, or low self-esteem as well as deeper concerns like abandonment or attachment issues.
With extensive experience across the lifespan, she has also supported people through parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career-related strain. Jeanette supervises others pursuing licensure and aims to make the start of therapy less daunting by offering steady, compassionate guidance.
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can help when emotions feel intense or relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jeanette will discuss goals and try methods that match each person’s needs, adjusting as progress or new issues arise. The decision about which tools to use is made together, not assumed in advance.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide a way to process feelings between sessions or to fit support into busy days. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across schedules and locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English