Jami Winkel, LMFT

Jami Winkel is a deeply compassionate and pragmatic Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 23 years of clinical experience. She blends emotional exploration with practical skill building so that insight leads to meaningful, sustainable change. Jami takes a collaborative approach, helping people translate awareness into day-to-day strategies that fit their lives and goals.

She is passionate about helping clients better understand themselves and about connecting mind and body. Her work reflects training in relational therapy and sensorimotor therapy and an interest in the neurobiology of habits - the idea that what wires together, fires together - which she uses to design interventions that address both feeling and behavior.

Grounded in social justice values, Jami focuses on pragmatic solutions for stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, career transitions, and other life changes. She works with clients who want both emotional insight and concrete tools to navigate challenges and make lasting shifts.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Care

Jami often draws on relational therapy, an approach that examines interaction patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they relate, communicate, and repair connection. She also uses sensorimotor therapy, which attends to bodily responses and movement alongside thoughts and emotions to address trauma-related reactions and reduce physical tension. In addition, Jami applies a neurobiology-informed approach to habit change, translating the principle "what wires together, fires together" into practical steps that shift automatic responses and build new routines.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person and with licensed professionals when appropriate to tailor techniques to an individual’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as therapy progresses.

Online therapy - by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging - offers flexibility and accessibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. These formats allow clients to choose how they communicate, maintain consistent contact, and apply evidence-informed techniques in ways that fit daily life.