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Jendayi Ford, LCSW

  • Experience11 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Relationship
  • Therapy approachesCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Therapy
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About Jendayi

Jendayi Ford is an LCSW with 11 years of experience helping clients navigate complex life challenges. She frames her work around practical strategies and tools that support coping, resilience, and personal growth.

Background and approach

Drawing on clinical training and hands-on practice, she offers guidance for concerns ranging from stress, anxiety, and depression to relationship, intimacy, and family matters, as well as ADHD and substance-related challenges. Her approach emphasizes collaboration and real-world skills that clients can apply between sessions.

Jendayi integrates evidence-based techniques to address grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and multicultural stressors, while also attending to caregiving and aging-related pressures. She attends to issues of identity, discrimination, and career stress while helping clients build clearer goals and healthier patterns.

Clients can expect a clinician who centers practical problem-solving alongside reflection, using a blend of structured and exploratory methods to meet each person where they are. Based in California, she provides services in English and aims to support meaningful change through steady, strengths-based work.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Jendayi frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and everyday stressors. She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to cultivate present-moment awareness, reduce reactivity, and support emotional regulation during life transitions and grief.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to select and adapt methods based on their goals, preferences, and the concerns they bring, adjusting techniques over time as needs evolve to ensure the work remains relevant and effective.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage with these methods through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats allow for consistent check-ins, practice of skills between sessions, and easier scheduling around work or caregiving demands, making it simpler to sustain therapeutic progress while fitting treatment into daily life.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Jendayi commonly address?
She works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, ADHD, and career or parenting stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines practical, skills-based work with reflective exploration using approaches like CBT and mindfulness to build coping strategies and foster resilience.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She is an LCSW with 11 years of professional experience providing mental health support across a range of issues and populations.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds California licensure listed as CA LCSW 27913 and practices from California.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or accept international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available for meeting?
Clients may meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or through text-based messaging depending on their needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Aging and geriatric issuesCaregiver issues and stressMulticultural concernsPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discrimination

Therapeutic approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

11+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English

About

Jendayi Ford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in California, not currently accepting new clients.