About Judith
Dr. Judith Dickey welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, relationship struggles, grief, mood challenges, or questions about identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
She writes in a direct, compassionate way and aims to help people find clearer thinking and more emotional balance. Dr.
Dickey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with 35 years of experience. Her approach blends family therapy with depth and psycho-spiritual perspectives.
She uses ideas from Jungian and archetypal psychology to help people uncover hidden patterns that shape relationships and life choices. Sessions focus on understanding emotional habits and building stamina to face hard situations.
She also works with trauma and addiction concerns using body-centered methods such as Emotional Freedom Techniques, often called EFT or tapping. That work addresses how upsetting events can stay stuck in the body and aims to reduce intense reactions so people can think and act more clearly.
Dr. Dickey talks about practical lifestyle factors too, like diet, movement, rest, social supports, and simple spiritual practices.
She encourages small, sustainable changes that support better mood and energy. This part of therapy connects daily habits to emotional health.
Therapy with her often looks at family patterns, codependency, grief, midlife shifts, and issues around self-worth and purpose. She helps people sort through relationship conflict, parenting stress, and identity questions while honoring both the logical and the intuitive parts of experience.
How her approaches translate to online work
Dr. Dickey commonly draws on depth psychology and family-systems ideas to identify repeating patterns and deeper narratives that shape relationships and behavior. Depth psychology focuses on unconscious themes and archetypal material to help people become more whole and intentional in their choices. This approach is useful for midlife questions, family of origin issues, and searching for life purpose.She also uses body-focused methods such as Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT tapping, which guides a person to tap on acupressure points while naming specific memories or feelings. This method aims to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and panic reactions so daily life becomes easier to manage.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try techniques that seem likely to help, and adjust the work based on what feels effective. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to focus more on narrative exploration, behavioral steps, or body-centered work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit deep conversations and tapping work that benefits from visual contact. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, written reflections, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English