About Jaime
Jaime Askew is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 24 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, trauma, and depression.
Background and approach
Jaime aims to make sessions approachable and understandable for someone who is nervous about starting therapy. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through painful memories and current problems.
Jaime listens for patterns that get in the way of daily life, then helps clients try new ways of coping and relating. Sessions emphasize clear steps and realistic goals rather than complicated theory.
Jaime works with a broad range of concerns including grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar concerns, and ADHD. She also has experience with topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and body image.
In therapy Jaime supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, communication breakdowns, codependency, and recovery after separation or divorce. Her approach is steady and practical, helping people build tools that fit their daily routines.
People who prefer straightforward conversation and clear next steps tend to find her helpful. Jaime partners with each person to set achievable goals and track progress over time.
How Jaime Uses Common Therapeutic Approaches Online
Jaime draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and emotional processing. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking and replacing it with more workable thoughts and actions; this helps with anxiety, stress, and mood shifts by giving concrete tools a person can try between sessions. Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences and reducing their hold on daily life through measured, paced exploration and coping strategies; this is useful for trauma, grief, and relationship wounds.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jaime works with each person to learn what feels right, sets shared goals, and adjusts methods if something is not helping. She frames therapy as a partnership where practical changes are tried, reviewed, and refined together.
Online formats make participation more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper interaction is needed. Phone sessions are helpful for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing to talking. These options let clients fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity during life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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
- 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