About Ayanna
Ayanna Jarrett uses relationship-focused and evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in Georgia with ten years of experience. Her style aims to feel warm and inviting while staying focused on real-life changes people can make.
Her work emphasizes the systems and patterns that shape daily life. She looks at how family history, attachment, and communication habits contribute to current problems.
How Ayanna works
Sessions often include skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to reduce overwhelming emotions and build practical coping tools. Ayanna also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods to address relationship and intimacy-related issues. These approaches help people notice patterns in how they connect with others and try new ways of relating.
She supports people facing grief, loss, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue with steady, collaborative care. Her background blends clinical training with a practical, problem-solving outlook. Over ten years she has worked with varied concerns including parenting challenges, blended family issues, adoption and foster care topics, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and career stress.
She adapts methods to fit each person’s needs rather than applying a single technique. Ayanna encourages patience and practice during change. She helps people learn new responses to long-standing patterns.
The goal is greater emotional stability, improved communication, and more satisfaction in day-to-day life.
Ayanna lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Ayanna works with
The areas below are the ones Ayanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ayanna commonly draws on attachment-based work to help people recognize patterns in how they connect with others and try new ways of relating. This approach is useful for intimacy issues, attachment concerns, and improving communication. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT is often paired with skills practice between sessions to build lasting change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ayanna works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches so the plan fits the problem rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet depending on what works best for the moment. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and to use therapy in the context of a busy life.
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