LMFT, 11 years of experience
Hi, I am a License Marriage Family Therapist. I offer 11 years of professional clinical experience. I hold a Master of Arts in Psychology Counseling with a concentration on Community Mental Health from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I provide services to individuals, couples, families, adolescents, transition age youth, young adults, LGBTQ+, non-traditional families, Individual with disabilities, and aging adults. I bring an array of lived and professional clinical experiences. I have extensive training and experience providing clinical services to diverse populations. I've provided services to communities from different cultural backgrounds, served and underserved as well as individuals from various socio-economic backgrounds.
I strive to create a clinical space where the client thoughts and feelings can be shared, expressed, heard and unpacked without fear of bias or judgment. I focus on identifying the client strengths and skills to support the client in gaining insight and awareness about specific issues. I focus on the client strengths and goals while assisting the client at creating an achievable path to reach those goals.
Utilizing a humanistic approach, I aim to create a collaborative alliance with the client as my therapeutic style is gentle and easy going. I am described as authentic, understanding and compassionate. I am passionate about supporting clients to reach their fullest potential through positivity, active listening, validation, inspiration and motivation that ultimately supports clients with building self-esteem and confidence. I’ve been told that I am easy to talk to, relatable and I have the proven skills to establish rapport and build professional, meaningful, therapeutic relationship.
Although I have a passion for providing human services, my specialty is youth and adolescent mental health. I acquire exceptional clinical skills, training and knowledge at treating and supporting teens and their parents with navigating the task of adolescent developmental milestones. Oftentimes, many adolescents are faced with developmental milestones as trying to establish their identity, autonomy and sense of belonging. At the same time, they are seeking a healthy balance between the forces of differentiation and separation while trying to maintain a healthy attachment to their secure base. Each adolescent experiences navigating these developmental tasks in various context that is unique to their own growing personality. During this developmental milestone, for some parents the task can be daunting and challenging. Those challenges can look like: parenting/boundaries problems, School/academia problems, social/romantic relational problems, parent/peer conflict, negative peer influence, ADHD, Conduct Disorder, ODD, depression, self-harm, SI, LGBTQ+ identity, teen substance use, bullying, gaming/social media disorder, Etc. I can support you through these challenges and milestones.
I have extensive training and experience using Attachment Base Family Therapy. I've spent years utilizing this treatment model as a Primary Therapist in Residential Treatment Programs for adolescents boys and girls. In my experience, I have observed families and individuals experienced successful therapy outcomes using this method and they've gone on to have healthier relationships. I apply this model in my practice by Identifying the client attachment style and attachment ruptures while assessing and assisting the client with repairing those ruptures. My approach is gaining an understanding and insight into the content and context of the family's dynamic by assessing the presenting problem while exploring the underlying causation of the attachment rupture and symptoms. I aim to help the client to shift the attachment theme and narrative. I assist the patient in exploring consequences of their attachment ruptures in relationships while eliciting and amplifying a desire for a healthier self relationship as the goal of therapy.
I have extensive training and experience using CBT in my 11 plus years of providing psychotherapy. I assist clients with assessing how their thoughts ultimately impact their feelings that ultimately become their behaviors that ultimately becomes habit forming. My goal is to help raise the client awareness through insight and identification in order to recognize unhealthy thinking and behavioral patterns. Catch the thought, assess the thoughts, and challenge the thought for facts, evidence and accuracy. This approach helps to reduce the individual problematic, cognitive rumination. This method can ultimately change the individual unhealthy behavioral. patterns to help the individual move towards being a healthier self.
I have extensive training and experience using CBT in my 11 plus years of providing psychotherapy. I utilize DBT particularly to provide skills for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships, depression, substance use, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, SI-to curb self-destructive impulses of chronic self harm, suicidal patients, and borderline personality disorder. I assist the client with using the four components of implementing DBT: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
I believe in nurturing your well-being from the inside out. Holistic therapies is understanding that the mind, body and soul are not separate. Individuals can experience self healing through improved physical health, reduced stress and anxiety, increase nutrition, energy, mental clarity, work life balance and a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment in life.
I have extensive training and experience using a Strength Base model. In my 11+ years of providing psychotherapy, I can Identify internal-external strengths and talents while assisting the client at building confidence and self-esteem. I aim to assist the client with focusing on those strengths as a resourceful trait, rather than focusing on the individual challenges, failure or shortcomings. This shift of cognition, focus and reframing and sets up a positive mindset that helps the client to build on their best qualities. The client can experience strength improvement, resiliency while changing their worldviews to one that is a more positive. My hope is to discuss the patient’s problems collaboratively to discover their inner strengths.
3 ratings with written reviews
July 24, 2025
It was so refreshing to talk to Ms. Jamelle. I have never felt so heard in my life.
July 16, 2025
I'm looking forward to working with Jamelle. I really feel like we connected even though it was only our first intake session. I think her POV and approach is going to be exactly what I need to be successful and to grow.
March 29, 2025
One of the best therapist I have ever had. She listens and uplifts. For any person of color I especially recommend. 10/10