Jamie Hood, LMFT

Jamie Hood is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with nine years of clinical experience. She earned a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Hope International University and has worked in community, school-based, and private practice settings. Jamie commonly sees concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, addiction, trauma and codependency.

Her background includes three years providing individual and group therapy at a shelter serving pregnant and homeless women, and work in a MediCal-funded school program serving youth and families. Those roles involved counseling, case coordination with school staff and community agencies, crisis support, and medication monitoring. That experience shaped how she responds to urgent needs and complex life situations.

In sessions she often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and to challenge thoughts that get in the way. She uses Solution-Focused ideas to set short-term goals and focus on practical changes in the present. Attachment, existential, and mindfulness techniques also inform her work to support self-esteem and symptom relief.

Jamie has completed additional trainings including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and holds a certification from Prepare and Enrich for marital and premarital work. She has training in trauma, anorexia, play therapy, and crisis intervention, and continues learning about chronic illness after a recent Type 1 diabetes diagnosis.

Outside of work she runs, rock climbs, and spends time with her two young children. Her approach is straightforward and practical: she partners with people to talk through problems, set goals, and build clearer ways of living and relating.

How her approaches translate to online work