About Jamayla
Jamayla Gray practices a client-centered style that focuses on what matters most to each person. She uses straightforward approaches to help people cope with anxiety, depression, addictions, and self-esteem struggles. Jamayla emphasizes building trust so clients can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
She holds an LPCC, which is the California Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential, and has six years of professional experience. Jamayla draws from several therapy methods to match each person's needs rather than relying on one fixed plan.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to feel practical and usable in day-to-day life. Jamayla helps people address relationship and intimacy concerns, LGBTQ issues, grief, trauma, and managing stress. She also supports people dealing with sleep or eating problems, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Conversations focus on small changes that lead to better coping and clearer choices. Her way of working blends acceptance-based ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and emotion-focused work. That mix aims to help clients notice what matters, shift unhelpful thinking, and improve emotional connection.
Jamayla uses gentle exploration and active strategies so people leave sessions with options they can try between meetings. Clients who prefer remote care can use video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Jamayla accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Starting is handled through a short matching process and scheduling that fits each person's timing.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values, notice thoughts and feelings, and take small actionable steps toward a meaningful life. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. CBT often helps with anxiety, sleep and eating problems, and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets emotional patterns in close relationships, helping people understand emotional responses and improve connection and communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches that match those needs. Clients and the therapist adjust methods together as progress and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or when written reflection feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions into busy routines and sustain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- 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
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English