Ayanna Jarrett, LMFT
Relationship-focused therapist helping steady emotional life
About Ayanna
Ayanna Jarrett uses relationship-focused approaches to help people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who draws on approaches that look at how relationships and family patterns shape daily life.
Background and approach
Her style is warm, direct, and encouraging, aimed at helping people gain clearer life skills and more emotional steadiness. She focuses on the systems in a person’s life that feel stuck or out of balance.
That can mean looking at communication patterns, attachment dynamics, or recurring behaviors that cause stress. Sessions typically include practical tools and steady support for handling everyday challenges and strong emotions.
Ayanna brings ten years of clinical experience to her work in Georgia and with international clients. She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, caregiving stress, parenting issues, relationship and intimacy matters, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and LGBT-related challenges.
She also addresses topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and coping after disasters. Her approach mixes client-centered listening with evidence-based strategies such as cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior techniques.
She emphasizes patience and steady practice when changing learned patterns from childhood. The goal is gradual, lasting change rather than quick fixes.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that blends practical skill-building with attention to emotional experience. Ayanna encourages people to be patient with themselves and to treat progress as a step-by-step process.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and skills
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current responses. It helps people understand emotional needs and rebuild trust in close connections, which can be useful for intimacy and attachment issues.Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience. The therapist listens actively and follows the client's pace, helping people feel heard while they work through decisions, grief, or self-esteem struggles.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear, practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and for managing mood swings or ADHD-related patterns.
Ayanna will work collaboratively to find the right mix of approaches for each person. She helps clients set goals, tries methods that match those goals, and adjusts work as needs change. Deciding what fits best is part of the process and happens together over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can require less bandwidth, chat is good for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make regular work on issues like communication, grief, and emotion regulation easier to maintain.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English