Jeanette Salinas, LCSW

Jeanette Salinas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience in California. She focuses on grief and loss, PTSD and trauma, and supports people facing major life changes. Her style is steady and paced to the person, starting with building trust and a working relationship.

She works with adults across many concerns including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and addictions. She also offers guidance to people caring for elderly relatives or family members with chronic or terminal illness. Aging and geriatric issues are one of her additional focus areas.

Sessions move at the client’s pace and emphasize practical steps forward. Jeanette uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and stability.

Narrative and Solution-Focused Therapy are part of her toolkit too, helping people reframe their stories and set short-term goals. Over 30 years she has developed stages for moving forward after loss and life transitions. She aims to help clients find manageable ways to cope and rebuild.

Jeanette supervises ACSWs and MFT Interns working toward licensure. She welcomes international clients in English and asks new people to choose their Start Therapy button to begin the matching process.

How her approaches work in online therapy

Jeanette uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can try different responses and see what helps.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication. DBT techniques are useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Jeanette talks with each person about goals and preferences and adapts methods together. That collaborative process helps decide whether CBT, DBT, narrative reframing, or short solution-focused steps will be most useful.

Confirm the specific online session options before booking because the biography does not list formats. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten check-ins when time is tight, and allow focused skill practice between meetings. Licensed professionals can help tailor session length and tools so therapy fits around school, work, caregiving, or medical appointments.