Aimee Severe
Compassionate, experienced guidance for life's transitions
LMFT California
- Experience
- 30 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing
- Languages
- English
About Aimee
Aimee Severe is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with three decades of professional experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She centers her work on building confidence, strengthening communication, and addressing relationship concerns while also supporting identity-related issues for LGBTQ clients.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to career shifts, grief, postpartum and pregnancy concerns, and women's issues. She draws on practical, action-oriented methods that help clients clarify priorities and develop new coping strategies.
Aimee emphasizes collaboration and gentle encouragement, guiding people through motivation challenges, codependency, forgiveness work, and compassion fatigue. Her approach aims to make emotional work feel manageable and purposeful rather than overwhelming.
Clients can expect a welcoming, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings are invited and explored. Aimee notes that beginning therapy takes courage, and she aims to honor that step while helping clients set realistic goals and practice concrete skills that fit their everyday lives.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Work
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, then practice new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress and improve functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress management. Motivational Interviewing focuses on building motivation and resolving ambivalence about change through supportive, goal-oriented conversation; it can be helpful for clients facing transitions or struggling to follow through on goals.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to explore their concerns, preferences, and short-term goals to determine whether CBT techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused steps, or a combination best suits their needs. This shared decision-making helps tailor sessions to what the client finds most useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by providing video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so clients can engage in therapy from different locations and on varied schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity during busy periods, manage care around work or family commitments, and practice skills between sessions with accessible support from a licensed professional.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
30+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English