About Jamie
Jamie Saley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on helping people make steady, workable changes. She offers a supportive, down-to-earth approach that values small steps and practical goals. Jamie talks plainly about obstacles and helps clients turn lists of intentions into actions.
She leans on somatic ideas and evidence-based methods to guide the process. That means paying attention to how stress shows up in the body and using skills people can practice between sessions.
Background and approach
Jamie also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy strategies to build new habits and lessen patterns that get in the way. Her career path includes a Master’s in mental health from the University of Central Florida and nine years of experience in community mental health settings.
She has worked in outpatient clinics, inpatient programs, schools, substance-abuse services, and other community agencies. Those settings shaped a practical style that blends research-backed skills with real-world problem solving. Jamie often helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship or intimacy problems, parenting strain, addiction, and identity concerns within the LGBT community.
She also supports clients dealing with grief, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, career shifts, and chronic health challenges. Sessions emphasize skill-building, self-awareness, and accountability. Jamie aims to tailor tools to each person instead of following a single formula.
She invites interested people to take a small first step toward change and schedule a session to see how the fit feels.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can include simple body awareness exercises, breathing, and posture checks to help people notice and change physical reactions to stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action. It teaches practical ways to accept uncomfortable thoughts while still moving toward what matters, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down patterns of thinking and behavior and offers clear tools to shift them, useful for worry, mood concerns, and habit change.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods together in a collaborative way. This helps people try methods and adjust as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That variety lets people use sessions around school, work, or caregiving demands and practice skills between meetings. Many clients find that having multiple ways to connect makes it easier to stay consistent and build steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English