About Jamaica
Jamaica Moake is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Hawaii with three years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career concerns, and major life changes. She keeps language simple and direct so people can understand what to expect from sessions.
Her approach centers on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify what is most pressing and to try small, doable steps that fit each person's life. Sessions move at a calm pace and allow time to reflect on progress between meetings. Jamaica pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions, especially around attachment and issues of abandonment.
She also supports people coping with illness, chronic pain, caregiving strain, aging concerns, and the stresses that come with blended family dynamics. Practical tools for communication and decision making are common topics in her work. She is comfortable addressing career stress, motivation, and body-image concerns alongside emotional issues.
For people on the autism spectrum or who face co-occurring challenges, she aims to adapt approaches to individual needs. Jamaica uses straightforward feedback and checks in about what helps most. Therapy begins with a brief conversation to set goals and match expectations.
Jamaica encourages anyone feeling stuck or overwhelmed to take the first step and explore whether her way of working feels like a fit.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building practical skills. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and confidence issues by breaking problems into manageable parts. Another approach concentrates on improving communication and attachment patterns by practicing new ways of relating and responding to others; this can help people who struggle with relationship stress or fear of abandonment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that seem likely to help, and adjust based on what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques to each person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to have brief check-ins, get reminders of skills, or fit support into a busy day. These formats aim to make regular care easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English