Jodie Gardner, LPCC, LPC

Jodie Gardner is a licensed counselor who combines clinical training with practical experience to support adolescents and adults through life’s difficult moments. She holds LPC licensure in Texas and LPCC licensure in California - both credentials that indicate advanced training and supervised clinical practice in counseling - and she is also a licensed chemical dependency counselor in Texas with experience helping people seeking freedom from addiction. Jodie works with individuals, couples, and families beginning at age 12, offering help for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, chronic pain, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and major life transitions.

Her approach emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared honestly. Jodie draws on methods such as acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-informed work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to tailor care to each person’s needs. She supports clients through relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, eating and sleep problems, stress and burnout, and complications related to mood, attention, or substance use.

Recognizing that beginning therapy takes courage, Jodie meets each person with empathy and practical guidance. She focuses on collaborative goal-setting and concrete steps toward healthier coping, helping people build resilience and regain balance in their daily lives.

Approaches and online care with Jodie Gardner

Jodie Gardner uses evidence-informed approaches adapted for online work to address emotional and behavioral concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and build practical actions that align with what matters most, and it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relating patterns and early connection styles - it supports healing in relationships, family dynamics, and issues rooted in abandonment or attachment wounds. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers concrete strategies to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with mood, anxiety, sleep, and coping skills.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jodie works collaboratively with each person to explore which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. Licensed professionals and therapists often combine tools from multiple approaches to best meet individual needs.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging provide flexible ways to engage in therapy without rearranging a full schedule. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across appointments, access support from home or work, and fit therapy into a busy life while still working closely with a trained therapist.