Troika Jackson-Grillo, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for relationship wounds
About Troika
Troika Jackson-Grillo welcomes people who are carrying heavy feelings and looking for steady, practical support. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and to help clients find small changes that bring relief.
Background and approach
Troika sees grief, trauma, self-esteem struggles, and concerns related to relationships and identity as clear topics to work on together. Troika is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California.
She draws on 13 years of clinical experience to guide conversations and suggest ways to try new behaviors. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on skills that can be used outside of therapy.
Her approach honors each person's story and strengths. She listens with attention and asks questions that help people notice patterns in relationships and reactions.
That can make difficult feelings easier to name and understand. Troika uses a mix of practical strategies and deeper reflection.
She offers cognitive behavioral techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and actions. She also uses attachment-informed work to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and expectations.
Clients who come to Troika often want help with loss, family conflict, communication problems, or feeling stuck by old patterns. She also supports people facing issues such as abandonment, codependency, dissociation, or grief related to end-of-life care.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, aimed at steady progress over time.
How attachment and practical therapy work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use discussion and exercises to notice recurring dynamics and to practice new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's experience with nonjudgmental support, helping people clarify their goals and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to test and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, using short exercises that can be tried between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Troika will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and what they hope to accomplish. Together they decide whether to emphasize reflective exploration, skill-building, or a mix of both.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it possible to keep regular contact and to practice new skills in everyday moments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English