About Jamie
Jamie Koivisto-Goeppinger uses a person-centered approach that emphasizes listening first and tailoring care to each person's needs. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with ten years of experience offering steady support for people facing change, loss, or persistent stress. Jamie works in Minnesota and speaks English.
She focuses on practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and trauma. Jamie also helps people navigate relationship strain, grief, and identity concerns including LGBT and gender dysphoria issues.
Background and approach
She offers tools for coping with life transitions, career stress, and challenges like addiction or ADHD. Sessions combine collaborative conversation with clear techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches. That means clients and Jamie set goals together, try small experiments between sessions, and build skills to manage hard moments.
She adapts her style to match what each person needs in the moment. Jamie also brings experience supporting people with autism spectrum concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and serious illness or end-of-life matters. She addresses communication breakdowns, infidelity, and patterns from family of origin that keep coming up.
Her work is down-to-earth and paced to the client. New clients can expect straightforward feedback, respectful curiosity, and practical next steps they can use between meetings. Jamie aims to be a steady partner while people take steps toward clearer thinking and better daily coping.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Client-centered therapy puts the person first by focusing on listening and building a respectful, collaborative relationship. This approach helps when someone wants to feel heard, clarify goals, and find direction at their own pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses practical steps and experiments to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jamie will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills from CBT, mindfulness practices to manage intense feelings, or trauma-focused strategies when past events are a central concern.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or for people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to keep appointments, try different formats, and maintain progress while juggling daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English