About Jendayi
Jendayi Ford is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 11 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for everyday struggles and helps people build coping skills they can use right away. She offers straightforward strategies for stress, anxiety, and depression.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, addictions, and anger. Jendayi works with issues related to grief, self-esteem, career transitions, and the strain caregivers face.
How Jendayi works
Her approach blends skills-based methods and reflective work. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behavior. Mindfulness practices are used to calm the body and focus attention during hard moments.
Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when people want to make concrete changes. Narrative and solution-focused techniques help people reframe stories about themselves and find small steps that move them forward. Jendayi pays attention to multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, and post-traumatic stress.
She also supports issues related to aging, geriatric concerns, and caregiver strain. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, aimed at building practical skills and clearer next steps.
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What Jendayi works with
The areas below are the ones Jendayi 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How practical approaches work online
Jendayi uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and change everyday behaviors; this can reduce anxiety and improve mood by teaching specific skills to try between sessions. She also incorporates mindfulness therapy to bring attention back to the present moment, using short breath or grounding exercises that are easy to practice during the day.The right approach is a collaborative choice. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods and adjust as needed. Clients and the therapist check progress and shift focus when something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is wanted. Phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth, while live chat or text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support easier to fit into a hectic day. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and work on skills between sessions.
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