About Jody
Jody Yeh-Shinbrood is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing from North Dakota. She helps people who are anxious, depressed, grieving, burnt out, or struggling with family and parenting pressures. She also supports clients facing trauma, intimacy or relationship concerns, career stress, and major life changes.
Jody brings 18 years of experience to her work. She aims to create a warm and respectful space where people can say what they feel and sort through what matters most.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and supportive - she listens, reflects, and helps clients find steps they can try between sessions. She often uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on client-centered listening and evidence-based techniques from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical behavior strategies to build new skills.
Motivational interviewing is part of how she helps people find motivation for change. Her past work includes helping families facing medical crises and supporting parents of children with special needs. That background shapes a calm, solution-oriented style that balances understanding with clear problem-solving.
Jody focuses on helping people identify goals and develop tools that fit their daily lives. Sessions are offered in English, and she is licensed in North Dakota and Illinois. Jody emphasizes collaboration - she and each client set goals together and choose methods that feel right for that person.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect how people connect today. It helps when trust, closeness, or repeating relationship patterns cause pain. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client’s pace; it helps people feel heard and discover their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, needs, and daily life and will suggest methods that match those priorities. Together you can try different strategies and stick with what helps most as you move forward.
Online sessions let therapeutic work fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing reflection, and skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Illinois
- Languages
- English