About Jodi
Jodi Gregory is a licensed professional counselor who brings a practical, compassionate approach to common emotional struggles. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. Jodi aims to help clients build self-esteem, improve communication, and find clearer direction in daily life.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a trauma-aware perspective to guide conversations. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and creating steps you can use between appointments.
Background and approach
Jodi also names faith as an influence for clients who value that lens during therapy. Her work includes attention to adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, blended family issues, and fatherhood challenges. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, cancer, and codependency.
Jodi pays close attention to family of origin patterns and communication problems that keep people stuck. With four years of clinical experience, she practices as an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor). Jodi sees clients located in Iowa and is available for sessions in English.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative, with an emphasis on real skills and small, achievable goals. In sessions people can expect concrete coping tools for panic, mood struggles, and relationship tensions. Jodi works to help clients leave therapy with clearer boundaries, better communication habits, and a plan for ongoing self-care.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Jodi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in plain, usable ways so people can practice new skills between sessions. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and stress by teaching breathing, grounding, and gradual exposure to feared situations to reduce intense reactions. Another approach centers on trauma-aware care that helps name the effects of past experiences, process upsetting memories safely, and rebuild a sense of control over daily life.Choosing the right method is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and personal preferences and then try approaches that fit. If something doesn’t feel helpful, it can be adjusted so the plan matches real needs and rhythms.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face when helpful, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options allow flexible scheduling and easier access for people juggling caregiving, work, or health concerns.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Texas
- Languages
- English