About Jeanette
Jeanette Salinas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of practice in California. She focuses on grief and major life transitions and helps people facing trauma, depression, and stress. Jeanette centers on building trust and moving at each person's pace in sessions.
She has long experience supporting people through loss, including pet loss, and guiding those caring for terminally or chronically ill relatives. Jeanette has worked with a wide range of people across adult life stages and with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and major depression.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes practical tools and talking through experiences. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT strategies to manage intense emotions. Narrative and solution-focused work help clients name their story and set small, realistic goals.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. Jeanette outlines stages for moving forward after big life changes and adapts those steps to each person’s situation. She also supports professionals pursuing licensure by supervising ACSW and MFTI trainees.
People who come to her often want help with anxiety, trauma, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, and coping with career or caregiving burdens. Jeanette aims to make the first step easier and to turn therapy into practical next steps rather than abstract talk. Her practice emphasizes clear communication, steady support, and concrete strategies that people can try between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Jeanette commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused and solution-focused methods to shape online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Trauma-focused therapy provides ways to process difficult memories and reduce the way past events disrupt daily life. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and short-term goals to build momentum and solve immediate problems.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She will talk with the client about their goals, what feels most useful, and try methods in session to see what fits. That collaborative testing helps tailor techniques to each person's needs and preferences rather than assuming one method will work for everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for focused check-ins, and text messaging supports brief coaching and reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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