Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
How Jeanette works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Jeanette
Jeanette Abney is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 20 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, reduce anxiety, and work through anger. She also supports those coping with addictions, relationship strain, and family conflict.
Her work typically starts with simple, direct conversations about what feels most urgent. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps people try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth with an emphasis on what can change now. Jeanette draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients build new skills. She guides people through setting small goals, practicing new behaviors, and tracking progress between sessions.
This approach is helpful for relationship issues, family concerns, and problems linked to substance use. She often addresses related themes such as attachment concerns, codependency, control issues, and communication problems. Jeanette also has experience working with people facing adoption and foster care questions, aging and geriatric issues, cancer, and separation or divorce.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Therapy sessions may include video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best for the person. Starting is a matter of selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire.
What Jeanette works with
Everything Jeanette lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Jeanette's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Jeanette uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building new skills. One common approach emphasizes practical skill-building and behavior change, which helps people manage stress, reduce anxiety, and respond differently when anger arises. Another approach she draws from centers on understanding attachment and relationship patterns, which can improve communication and reduce recurring conflicts in close relationships.Choosing the right way to work together is collaborative. Jeanette will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. That process helps make sure therapy fits what matters most to the client and what feels doable week to week.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet depending on needs and routines. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to touch base between sessions or fit support into busy days. These options make therapy more accessible while letting the therapist and client focus on practical change.
Questions people ask about Jeanette
What concerns does Jeanette commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, addictions, relationship strain, and family conflict. Other areas include attachment and communication problems as well as family of origin issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and conversational. She focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns and trying concrete new behaviors between sessions.
What kind of professional experience does she bring?
She has 20 years of professional work experience helping people with emotional and interpersonal challenges in California.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
In what formats are sessions provided?
Sessions can be via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.