- Person-centered care
- Focus on recovery
- Practical coping skills
About Jamie
Jamie Schwartz is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people manage mood, addiction, and life transitions. She brings a calm, person-centered approach to sessions and aims to meet each person where they are. Her style is warm and respectful, focused on practical steps that fit into everyday life.
Jamie has worked a long time with substance use and mental health concerns. That experience includes depression, anxiety, eating and food-related issues, and mood disorders. She also supports people dealing with grief, burnout, compassion fatigue, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.
In the room she uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to set short-term goals and track small changes. Those tools are used to help people change unhelpful patterns and build new coping skills.
Jamie understands how codependency and control issues can affect relationships and recovery. She pays attention to practical routines, boundaries, and behaviors people can try between sessions. That makes therapy feel grounded and doable.
Based in New York, Jamie supports a range of concerns including bipolar conditions, panic and social anxiety, and addiction to drugs or alcohol. She works with people who want help with career stress, parenting pressures, or major life shifts. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and pacing work to their readiness. In practice this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people name next steps that feel doable. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches small behavior and thinking changes that reduce symptoms over time. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jamie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process helps shape whether sessions focus more on skills practice, exploring feelings, or setting short-term goals.
Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for flexible scheduling that works around work or caregiving. Some approaches lend themselves to short skill-focused check-ins, while others use longer sessions for deeper processing; Jamie will help decide what fits best for the individual's life and goals.
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Experience
20+ years
Credentials
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Jamie commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, eating and body image concerns, grief, trauma, and other mood-related issues.
How does she approach therapy?
Her style is client-centered and warm, using cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to set and reach practical goals.
What background and experience does she have?
Jamie has 20 years of experience working with substance use and mental health concerns, including eating disorders and mood disorders.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LCSW-R licensed in New York and practices from New York.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Jamie?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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