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I find it truly rewarding to help those who are struggling mentally....
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I find it truly rewarding to help those who are struggling mentally.
I am a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 6 years of experience, including 5 years dedicated to psychiatric care. I specialize in supporting individuals facing challenges such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. I am passionate about providing compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to each person’s unique journey. My goal is to empower clients to achieve stability, improve their quality of life, and rediscover joy in their daily experiences.
I hold a Doctorate in Nursing from Frontier Nursing University. My approach combines empathic listening with motivational interviewing to create a safe space where clients feel understood and supported. By helping individuals recognize their strengths and guiding them toward meaningful change, I support lasting growth and resilience.
I welcome clients to connect with me in a supportive and collaborative environment, whether in person or through convenient telehealth visits. My care is designed to help individuals find balance, build resilience, and improve their overall quality of life. Together, we can work toward a stronger sense of peace and well-being.
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Using an empathic approach, I strive to maintain a "judgment-free" zone where you will be encouraged to explore past and present t...
Using an empathic approach, I strive to maintain a "judgment-free" zone where you will be encouraged to explore past and present themes in your life. Throughout that exploration, we will customize relevant goals and achieve sustainable life changes.
Jamie Bennett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of California with over 9 years of counseling experience. She specializes in treating adolescents and adults who are suffering from anxiety disorders, depression, life transitions, communication challenges, and mood disorders. She has honed a comprehensive therapeutic style to best support patients in sustaining life changes.
Jamie currently works in an individual capacity, identifying patients’ most pervasive symptoms with the intention of liberating them from their emotional confines. She first conducts a psychodynamic exploration and collaborates with patients to create meaningful, individualized goals. Throughout the therapeutic work, Jamie is vigilant about relaying relevant cognitive and dialectical behavioral strategies to enhance therapeutic outcomes.
Jamie maintains a compassionate and empathic approach in order to create a "judgment-free zone" for patients. She lives and works by the belief that there is value in every experience and by uncovering the meaning in challenges, patients can maximize the rest of their lives.
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Grief and loss counseling helps people grieve difficult losses including the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the end of a relationship. It helps people navigate their grief process and eventually accept, understand, and move forward from their loss. Thriveworks grief therapists in San Francisco, CA have specific experience, training, and skills that enable them to best support grieving individuals.
Grief and loss counseling isn’t one-size-fits-all, but it involves sharing about your loss and then working with your counselor to acknowledge and accept your new reality in its wake. Your provider at Thriveworks in San Francisco, CA will design your treatment plan around your unique needs and goals for therapy, applying the counseling techniques that best support them.
If you have recently experienced an event like the death of a loved one, a breakup or divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life change, then you may want to seek grief and loss counseling. Grief can be caused by many experiences and events, so if you feel that you are having trouble moving on from a certain event or find that it is still impacting your life and functioning, grief and loss counseling can help you process it more effectively so that you can move on and once again find fulfillment and satisfaction in your life.
There are many counseling theories for treating grief, one of the most frequently used being the dual process model of grief which helps people acknowledge who or what they’ve lost through rumination while also adjusting to the new roles and identities that this loss has now placed on them. There are also many commonly used therapy approaches used in grief and loss counseling, including Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and traumatic grief therapy.
Grief & loss counseling at Thriveworks is conducted both in person and online by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
For many, grief and loss counseling lasts for about 6 months. For others, it may last shorter or longer, depending on the severity of their loss and their grief.
Includes individual, couples, child/ teen, & family therapy
Includes reducing symptoms with medication & management
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