Jami Winkel
Practical support for family and parenting life
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jami
Jami Winkel is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on everyday family and parenting concerns. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting questions, career shifts, and major life changes. Her style blends compassion with practical steps so people can start making small changes that add up.
Jami draws on more than 23 years of clinical work and aims to move clients from awareness to action. She balances emotional processing with concrete coping strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple, repeatable practices that connect thoughts, feelings, and bodily responses. Her training includes relational therapy and sensorimotor approaches that attend to both relationships and bodily experience. Jami also uses knowledge of habit neurobiology - how repeated actions rewire the brain - to shape practical plans clients can try between sessions.
She describes her work as collaborative and pragmatic. Together with a client she clarifies realistic goals, experiments with new behaviors, and adjusts plans when needed. The focus is on skills that fit day-to-day family life and parenting rhythms.
Jami practices in California as a CA LMFT 44036. Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients. Many people choose formats that fit their schedules, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Evidence-based approaches and how they work online
Jami commonly uses relational work and sensorimotor-informed methods in her practice. Relational work focuses on understanding patterns in how people connect and respond to one another, which can help when relationships or parenting feel stuck. Sensorimotor-informed techniques bring attention to body sensations and movement to help process emotion and shift automatic reactions that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on practical habit-focused strategies that look at how small, repeated actions change the brain and behavior over time. Those techniques are aimed at turning insight into regular routines that support family life and parenting goals. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process - she will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and what feels manageable in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing family schedules, work, and other responsibilities. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove the need for video, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while trying new skills at home.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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