Ayanna Jarrett , LMFT

Ayanna Jarrett brings ten years of clinical experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). She believes people are here to help one another grow and to move toward more fulfilling lives, and she focuses on guiding clients through the peaks and valleys that create emotional pain. Ayanna has trained in a broad range of therapeutic methods and uses evidence-informed strategies to help clients make lasting change rather than relying on a single approach.

Her primary work centers on the systems in a person’s life that are not functioning well and on helping to shift those patterns. She commonly uses Narrative Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Solution-Focused methods, and she also draws on Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, and Emotionally-Focused techniques when appropriate. This flexible, integrative stance is intended to match interventions to each client’s needs and goals.

Ayanna has worked successfully with people facing grief and loss, narcissistic abuse, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety and stress, blended family challenges, parenting children with disabilities, and marriage concerns. Her style is described by herself as warm, lighthearted, inviting, and nonthreatening, with an emphasis on building practical life skills, emotional stability, and patience in the healing process. As an LMFT she is trained to address relationship and family dynamics, and she invites clients who are ready to work on change to take that next step with support.