About Jackie
Jackie M O'Malley Gomez helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and depression. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 25 years of experience. Her work is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people find clearer thinking and more steady days.
She focuses on issues like post-traumatic stress, panic, postpartum depression, and problems with focus and attention often labeled ADHD. She also supports people dealing with addictions, anger, low self-esteem, and the strain of life changes.
How Jackie works
Additional areas include abandonment wounds, adoption and foster care concerns, family of origin issues, and first responder or veteran-related experiences. Her sessions combine cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and somatic work. That means talking through thoughts and behaviors, practicing grounding and awareness, and noticing how the body holds stress.
For trauma-related concerns she uses trauma-focused strategies to reduce distress and improve day-to-day coping. Jackie believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths to the work. She offers a calm, respectful presence and practical steps clients can try between sessions.
The aim is to build tools that fit real life. People connect with Jackie for focused, experience-based help. She guides change in small, manageable steps and adjusts the pace to match each person’s needs.
Jackie lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Jackie works with
The areas below are the ones Jackie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches for stress, trauma, and daily coping
Jackie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going. CBT is practical and often focuses on small behaviors and thinking shifts that reduce anxiety and lift mood.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to build present-moment awareness. Mindfulness helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can lessen reactivity and improve focus. Somatic therapy is used to bring attention to how the body stores stress, with simple grounding and breath-based practices to calm the nervous system.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jackie treats the choice of methods as collaborative and adapts them to a person’s goals and comfort level. She talks through options and adjusts pace and techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people touch base between appointments or communicate in writing when that feels best.
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