About Jaime
Jaime Askew is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and related concerns. Jaime creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters to them.
She emphasizes steady support as people take steps toward change. Clients who work with Jaime often want clear tools and honest conversation.
Background and approach
She listens for how daily habits, relationships, and past experiences shape current problems. Sessions aim to make thoughts and feelings easier to understand and manage. Jaime balances empathy with straightforward feedback to help people move forward.
Her experience covers grief, depression, bipolar concerns, parenting and caregiver stress, and intimacy issues. She also addresses self-esteem, career strain, eating and sleeping struggles, and compassion fatigue. ADHD is among the areas she lists, alongside other attention and organizational challenges.
Jaime also brings experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment themes, autism and Asperger syndrome, and diverse relationship expressions such as kink. She helps people facing life changes like divorce, aging, or disaster recovery. Sessions are offered in English and delivered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Jaime describes therapy as a collaborative process, helping people set realistic goals and find workable strategies. Her approach is aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Jaime uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to change everyday patterns and reactions. One common approach focuses on helping people recognize unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and improve mood. This kind of work can help with anxiety, depression, and parts of ADHD that involve distraction or negative self-talk.She also uses methods that look at relationship patterns and how early experiences affect current connections. This helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and gives concrete steps to communicate differently and repair bonds. Those strategies are often helpful for intimacy issues, grief, and attachment concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Jaime discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapts techniques over time. Clients and the therapist check in regularly to see what is working and adjust the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video gives a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people send thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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