Online in California, Montana
(Online Only)
Looking for grief counseling or chronic illness support? Living with a recent loss or a new medical diagnosis can make you wonder if you will ever feel like yourself again. These life transitions often cause deep emotional suffering, anxiety, and isolation. While friends and family try to offer support, it is common to feel like no one truly understands your pain or that you are becoming a burden to your loved ones.In my therapy practice, you will find a safe space to process grief, trauma, and medical anxiety without needing to put on a brave face. You do not have to pretend you are okay here. Together, we will navigate this dark season, explore coping strategies for life challenges, and restore your hope for the future. Please know that your emotional response is completely valid—there is nothing wrong with you, and healing is possible. I can help.
Client Focus
Session Format: Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult
Demographic Expertise: Women clients.
Treatment Approach
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) Helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, while committing to actions that reflect their values. It blends mindfulness with practical behavior strategies.
- Family Systems Therapy Looks at problems within the context of the family as a whole. It aims to improve communication and balance in family relationships.
- Feminist Therapy Addresses how gender roles, power, and social inequality affect mental health. It empowers clients to challenge limiting beliefs and systems.
- Social Constructionist Therapy Looks at how social and cultural context shapes identity and problems. It helps clients create new narratives of meaning.
- Somatic Therapy Helps clients notice how emotions are stored in the body. It uses breath, movement, and awareness for healing trauma and stress.
Approach Description: I work with clients who are living with a medical illness, working through grief and loss, experiencing burnout, and more. We will work together to address the challenges you face. I can help you better understand yourself and others, increase your self-compassion, process difficult emotions, and work through past trauma. Clients often feel a sense of relief after the first few sessions.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 195
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Jackie Williams-Reade PhD
- Female
- License # 87056
- Licensed in CA
- Practicing Since 2005
Education: MS, Marriage and Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
PhD, Medical Family Therapy, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Post-doctoral fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Jackie Williams-Reade Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available Online for residents of California, Montana
- Online Therapy Details: Trauma‑Informed Therapy for High‑Performing Women Navigating Midlife Stress, Health Changes, Grief, & Unresolved Childhood Trauma to residents across California and Montana. I don't currently take insurance, but can provide you a superbill to send to your insurance for reimbursement as an out-of-network provider.
Kardia Counseling Center offers specialized, evidence-based mental health therapy to help individuals heal, build resilience, and reclaim emotional well-being. Our expert clinicians provide a safe, compassionate, and heart-centered environment tailored to your unique healing journey. We specialize in helping adults and adolescents navigate the profound challenges of medical illness coping, grief and loss, and childhood trauma recovery.
Whether you are managing a life-altering medical diagnosis, processing deep grief, or resolving old survival patterns from your past, our practice integrates proven therapeutic modalities to support your growth.
Our Core Areas of Specialized Care
Medical Illness Coping: Support for chronic illness, diagnosis anxiety, identity loss, and caregiver burnout.
Grief & Loss Therapy:
Compassionate guidance through bereavement, ambiguous loss, and difficult life transitions.
Childhood Trauma Recovery:
Focused healing for early neglect, abuse, relationship patterns, and inner-child processing.
Why Choose Kardia Counseling Center?
Trauma-Informed Expertise: Clinicians trained in nervous system regulation and paced trauma resolution.
Personalized Care Plans: Collaborative treatment strategies tailored entirely to your goals.
Ready to begin healing?
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