- Practical guidance
- Collaborative approach
- Parenting focus
About Jean
Jean McBride is a licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of practice in Colorado. She brings a warm, intuitive, and interactive style to sessions. Jean views therapy as a joint effort and focuses on helping people make practical changes in their lives.
Her work often centers on relationship and family challenges, including separation and blended family concerns. She also helps people facing grief, stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Jean has a particular interest in parenting struggles and compassion fatigue for caregivers.
Jean wrote three books on family topics, including guides for stepmothers and for talking with children about divorce. She also developed and taught a court-ordered curriculum for divorcing parents in Colorado for 25 years, reaching more than 25,000 participants. That experience informs her practical, experience-focused approach.
In sessions she aims to empower clients through clear listening and collaborative planning. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on small steps that can reduce stress and improve communication. Clients can expect a therapist who values honesty, respect, and problem solving.
People seeking help with parenting transitions, breakup or divorce issues, or ongoing relationship strain often choose to work with her. Jean encourages those facing life changes to consider what concrete goals would make life easier, and then to work toward them together.
Her work often centers on relationship and family challenges, including separation and blended family concerns. She also helps people facing grief, stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Jean has a particular interest in parenting struggles and compassion fatigue for caregivers.
Jean wrote three books on family topics, including guides for stepmothers and for talking with children about divorce. She also developed and taught a court-ordered curriculum for divorcing parents in Colorado for 25 years, reaching more than 25,000 participants. That experience informs her practical, experience-focused approach.
In sessions she aims to empower clients through clear listening and collaborative planning. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on small steps that can reduce stress and improve communication. Clients can expect a therapist who values honesty, respect, and problem solving.
People seeking help with parenting transitions, breakup or divorce issues, or ongoing relationship strain often choose to work with her. Jean encourages those facing life changes to consider what concrete goals would make life easier, and then to work toward them together.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.