Jeanette Salinas, LCSW

Jeanette Salinas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with 30 years of experience. She has worked across many settings and with people facing grief, trauma, mood conditions, and major life transitions. Jeanette lists anger among the concerns she helps people with, alongside stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues.

She trained and received her master’s degree and LCSW in Sacramento, California. Over the decades she has seen people at different life stages and situations. That includes people coping with bereavement, pet loss, caregiving responsibilities, and chronic or terminal illness in the family.

Her practical approach begins with building trust and moving at the client’s pace. Sessions focus on talking through the immediate problem and learning skills to manage reactions, mood, and relationships. She uses straightforward tools pulled from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to identify patterns and practice different responses.

Narrative and Solution-Focused Therapy also appear in her work. Narrative techniques help people make sense of their story after loss or trauma. Solution-Focused methods target small, concrete steps that bring relief between sessions.

Jeanette has experience supporting people with bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and borderline personality concerns, and she offers guidance to caregivers. She also supervises social work and marriage and family therapy trainees preparing for licensure. Her style is steady and practical, aimed at helping people manage anger, grief, and the stress of life changes.

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