Jeana De Lay, LMFT

Jeana De Lay is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 17 years of clinical experience working with adults, children, couples, and families across a range of life challenges. She combines long-term and short-term therapeutic work to help people recover from past trauma, navigate transitions, and reclaim a stronger sense of voice and agency in their lives.

Jeana brings a warm, caring, and understanding presence to the therapy room, creating an atmosphere where clients can engage in honest exploration and growth. She offers practical parenting instruction that teaches parents how to interact, communicate, and set consistent, loving boundaries at each stage of a child's development. As a life coach, she also supports clients in defining concrete goals and building bridge strategies that move them from where they are now to where they want to be.

Her approach emphasizes collaborative planning and tailored homework assignments that help clients progress toward their vision of a more positive future. Jeana works with individuals to clarify treatment goals such as improved well-being, stronger relationships, better communication, and changed behavior patterns, all aimed at helping clients reach those important a-ha moments. She is licensed in California as CA LMFT 47567.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Jeana De Lay

Jeana offers both short-term and long-term therapeutic work tailored to each client's needs. Short-term work focuses on resolving immediate concerns and building practical coping strategies, while longer-term therapy supports deeper exploration of patterns, relationships, and past experiences such as trauma or significant life transitions.

She also provides targeted parenting skills training that helps caregivers learn age-appropriate ways to communicate, set limits, and foster emotional growth in children. As a life coach, Jeana uses a goal-focused approach to help clients identify obstacles, set achievable milestones, and move toward their desired outcomes.

Finding the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. Jeana works with clients to assess needs, clarify goals, and choose techniques that fit personal preferences and circumstances. She guides clients in adapting the plan as progress unfolds so therapy continues to meet changing needs.

Online therapy with Jeana includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility to schedule sessions around work, family, and daily life. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access therapists when in-person visits are not feasible, while supporting consistent progress toward therapeutic goals.