About Jamayla
Jamayla Gray uses a client-centered approach to help people find clearer direction and stronger coping skills. She blends practical methods with a warm, nonjudgmental style so conversations feel straightforward and useful. Jamayla is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, or LPCC, practicing in California with six years of professional experience.
She focuses on concerns like addictions, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy issues, grief, trauma, parenting stress, and career changes.
How Jamayla works
Her work includes attention to ADHD, bipolar disorder, sleeping and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Jamayla combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and take practical steps forward. Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work guide conversations about closeness, trust, and communication.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and geared toward the goals each person brings. In sessions she emphasizes safety and direct feedback so clients can try new ways of coping between meetings. She helps people break problems into manageable steps and build small, repeatable habits.
Her practical focus includes coaching around motivation, boundaries, and relationship skills. Jamayla welcomes English-speaking clients in California and is open to working with international clients online. People who want to begin pick the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Jamayla lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Jamayla works with
The areas below are the ones Jamayla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Jamayla often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. This approach focuses on small, value-driven steps and can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify thinking patterns that keep problems stuck and to test new behaviors. CBT is useful for mood, stress, sleep, and habit-related concerns. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about trust and closeness, which can help with intimacy and relationship communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jamayla will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most and involves clients in deciding next steps.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller discussions and nonverbal cues, phone can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth, and messaging formats work for brief check-ins, homework, or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines and to keep momentum between meetings.
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