About Jackie
Jackie M O'Malley Gomez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in California. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and concerns like ADHD, addictions, anger, and parenting strain. Jackie also supports work on relationships, self-esteem, and life changes.
Her approach is practical and grounded. Sessions include talking through what feels hard, noticing how the body responds, and learning small, usable tools for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Jackie blends somatic methods with mindfulness and practical thinking strategies to help people manage strong feelings and panic attacks. Clients can expect a calm, straightforward style that emphasizes their strengths. Jackie frames clients as experts on their own lives and partners with them to try different strategies.
She focuses on building skills for coping, improving communication, and reducing overwhelm. Her background includes long-term clinical work with trauma, PTSD, first responder issues, and postpartum depression. She also has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, veteran and armed forces issues, and family of origin challenges.
Jackie draws on 25 years of experience to tailor support to each person's needs. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Jackie holds a California license - LMFT CA 42374 - and works with adults and adolescents to move toward clearer thinking and steadier daily routines.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Somatic Therapy helps people tune into bodily sensations and notice how stress shows up in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness exercises and grounding practices that reduce panic and intensity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change mood and behavior. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and trouble with focus. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build steady routines; it pairs well with somatic awareness for emotion regulation.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about symptoms, goals, and daily routines, and will try a few methods to see what fits. Together the client and therapist adjust techniques over time so the plan matches needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and people in different parts of California. Video calls allow face-to-face work on breath, posture, and movement, while phone sessions can be easier when hands-on tasks are needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between appointments and get short, practical strategies when stress spikes. These options make it easier to keep therapy part of everyday life and practice skills consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English