Jodie Gardner , LPCC, LPC

Jodie Gardner is a licensed counselor who brings nine years of clinical experience to her practice in Texas. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and focuses on helping people navigate hard life moments like addiction, trauma, grief, and mood struggles. Jodie aims to create a calm space where clients can talk honestly and feel heard.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients set concrete goals. Sessions often include practical tools for managing anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and stress. Jodie also supports people working through relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career challenges, and issues around identity such as LGBT matters.

She draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer coping skills and clearer thinking. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas guide how she addresses relationships and self-worth.

Jodie has experience helping people facing addictions, chronic pain, caregiving strain, and complicated grief. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, body image, and sleep difficulties. Her practice welcomes open conversations about kink, adoption and foster care histories, and blended family stressors.

People who do best with her approach want practical tools and honest feedback. Sessions move at a steady, respectful pace and focus on steps the client can try between meetings. Jodie encourages small experiments so progress feels manageable.

How Jodie Uses Evidence-Based Methods Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without fighting them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, chronic pain, and getting unstuck from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms. It often involves homework and skill practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jodie discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods as needed. She treats the process as a collaboration and checks in about whether tools and strategies are working for the client.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can help with brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when written reflection feels easier. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life while keeping attention on measurable steps and skills practice.