- CBT and mindfulness
- Body-focused work
- 25 years experience
About Jackie
Jackie M O'Malley Gomez is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and focus problems like ADHD. Jackie speaks directly and warmly, and she values the strengths people already bring to their lives.
She believes clients are the experts in their own stories and builds on what is already working. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Jackie uses methods that help with thoughts, body sensations, and memories so people can feel more steady in day-to-day life.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and somatic work. That means clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, practice present-moment awareness, and notice how stress shows up in the body. Trauma-focused work is included when past events keep coming back and causing pain.
Jackie has a long history of supporting adolescents and adults through issues such as PTSD, panic attacks, postpartum depression, addiction, and relationship strain. She also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, and isolation or loneliness.
Practical skills and short-term strategies are part of her work, alongside deeper processing where needed. Jackie encourages small experiments between sessions so people can try new ways of coping and see what helps.
To begin, she asks people to take a first step and complete a brief matching questionnaire before scheduling. That helps shape initial goals and makes the first session more focused.
She believes clients are the experts in their own stories and builds on what is already working. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Jackie uses methods that help with thoughts, body sensations, and memories so people can feel more steady in day-to-day life.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and somatic work. That means clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, practice present-moment awareness, and notice how stress shows up in the body. Trauma-focused work is included when past events keep coming back and causing pain.
Jackie has a long history of supporting adolescents and adults through issues such as PTSD, panic attacks, postpartum depression, addiction, and relationship strain. She also addresses adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, and isolation or loneliness.
Practical skills and short-term strategies are part of her work, alongside deeper processing where needed. Jackie encourages small experiments between sessions so people can try new ways of coping and see what helps.
To begin, she asks people to take a first step and complete a brief matching questionnaire before scheduling. That helps shape initial goals and makes the first session more focused.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.