Jody Yeh-Shinbrood
Skillful support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- North Dakota, Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jody
Jody Yeh-Shinbrood is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She practices from North Dakota and holds LCSW licenses in North Dakota and Illinois. Jody focuses on family and parenting concerns, along with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles.
She also supports people facing trauma, caregiving strain, and life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward. She treats people as able to build on their own strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions are respectful and attentive, and she encourages clients to set their own goals. Jody uses practical tools to help manage emotions and solve problems. She draws from several therapy methods to meet real-life needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early patterns that affect current relationships. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change.
Jody has worked in medical settings and with families of children who have special needs. That background gives her experience with intense stress, caregiving issues, and major life events. She also addresses blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and communication problems.
Her approach aims to build practical skills so clients feel more capable at home and in relationships. Jody emphasizes problem solving, symptom-focused strategies, and brief solution work when that fits the client's goals. She invites a collaborative process where the client’s values guide the work.
Therapy approaches and how they fit into online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how people connect, trust, and respond in close relationships, which can help with parenting and family conflicts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and the actions that follow. It breaks big problems into steps and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a team process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, values, and day-to-day challenges. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed, keeping the client’s preferences in mind.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to get that work done. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide shorter or more frequent contact when that suits a busy family. These options can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life and to use learned skills between meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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