About Jackie
Jackie M O'Malley Gomez helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD struggles, and addiction. She guides people coping with relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and big life changes.
Background and approach
Jackie works with clients facing panic attacks, postpartum depression, seasonal mood shifts, and issues like isolation or a search for life purpose. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 25 years of professional experience.
Jackie believes clients are the experts in their own stories and brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions. She focuses on small, doable changes rather than only talking about problems.
In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on mindfulness and somatic methods to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
For people who have experienced trauma, she incorporates trauma-focused techniques to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. Jackie aims to make therapy a collaborative process.
She listens for strengths and looks for realistic steps clients can try between meetings. People leave sessions with specific skills to manage anxiety, improve focus, and handle difficult emotions.
Her style is straightforward and warm. She encourages curiosity and self-compassion during the work.
Jackie supports each client at their own pace and helps them set goals that fit their life.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Jackie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and somatic therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. It helps with focus, panic symptoms, and patterns that hold people back. Somatic therapy pays attention to how stress and trauma show up in the body, using gentle body-awareness and grounding practices to calm intense sensations and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jackie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick support, ongoing reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule while keeping therapy consistent over time.
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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