About Jamie
I’m a Pacific Northwest Native and grew up near the Puget Sound, with barnacles, eels, flounder, and crab revealing themselves at low tide. I love how the hemlocks, cedar and maple trees cover PNW forests and how ferns unfurl in the dampness. It’s a soothing place to grow - in touch with mother nature’s wide arms.
Southern California is where I now call home with my partner and children, and two pups. You may see my “therapy dogs” walking behind me in our online session.
Credentials, Education & Experience
AASECT CERTIFIED SEX THERAPIST (post-graduate supervised work with couples and individuals who identify across the gender spectrum; work focused on couples and individuals who presented with sexual dysfunctions, infidelity, emotional infidelity, low or no sexual desire, sexual desire discrepancy, sexual fear, performance-based sexuality, sex minimized to penis-in-vagina penetration; sexual boredom/disappointment/frustration)
NCC (Board Certified National Certified Counselor) through NBCC
CIIP (Certified Integrated Intimacy Practitioner) through the Northwest Institute On Intimacy.
LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State #LH60878464)
LPC (Texas)
LPCC (California)
LPC (Tele-health license in Florida)
MA, COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
BA, PSYCHOLOGY, Magna Cum Laude University of Washington
PRIOR TO LICENSURE SUPERVISED BY:
Dr. Tina Shermer-Sellers, Clinical Sexologist, Founder of the Northwest Institute on Intimacy
Doug Hansen, MSW, Human Sexuality Professor at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
Jessa Zimmerman, LMHC, Sex Therapist
EXPERIENCE:
2021, Spoke & Co-facilitated one Marriage & Family Therapy Class session at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology (Online)
2020, Co-facilitated Sexual Health & Relationship Health Course for a group of twenty 8th grade students weekly from February - May
2018-Current, Board Member for Northwest Institute On Intimacy (advancing sexual health knowledge in the community)
2017, Presented to undergraduate and graduate students on sexual health and working with couples and individuals therapeutically around sexual issues at: Antioch University, University of Washington, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
2016-Current, PSYCHOTHERAPIST, Seattle Intimacy & Sex Therapy, aka Jamie Abenroth Therapy
2016, SMALL GROUP FACILITATOR for therapists, Northwest Institute On Intimacy
2015-2016, CLINICAL INTERN, Seattle Counseling Service which serves the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and ally) community. My clients identified across the gender spectrum and sexual orientation spectrum.
TRAINING SESSIONS:
2021:
CRUCIBLE THERAPY WEBINAR, Working With Written Mental Dialogues (2 hours) : Sarah Morehouse & Tara Christophet (Online)
2020:
CRUCIBLE NEUROBIOLOGICAL THERAPY, Training 4 (6 day intensive) : Dr. David Schnarch, Grace Whitman, Barbara Fairfield (Online)
CRUCIBLE THERAPY, Female Therapists Working With Male Clients (3 day intensive): Barbara Fairfield LMFT, Grace Whitman MSW & Dr. David Schnarch (Online)
CRUCIBLE THERAPY, Working With Affairs (3 day intensive): Dr. David Schnarch
2019:
CRUCIBLE NEUROBIOLOGICAL THERAPY, Training 3 (6 day intensive): Dr. David Schanrch
2018:
CRUCIBLE NEUROBIOLOGICAL THERAPY, Training 2 (6 day intensive): Dr. David Schnarch
CRUCIBLE NEUROBIOLOGICAL THERAPY, Training I (6 day intensive): Dr. David Schnarch
AASECT ANNUAL CONFERENCE (5 day training with various topics presented: alternative sexualities, holistic sexuality, couples desire discrepancy, how embodiment changes the brain, current research on girls and consent in the United States)
EMBODIMENT & DESIRE (And how they change the brain) (5 day intensive), Dr. Stella Resnick
2016:
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE: TRAUMA (1 day intensive); Bessel van der Kolk, MD
MIND MAPPING THERAPY (4 day intensive); Dr. David Schnarch and Dr. Ruth Morehouse
EXPANDING THE PRACTICE OF SEX THERAPY FOR PROFESSIONALS: WOMEN'S SEXUAL STORIES (8 day intensive); Dr. Gina Ogden
SAR (SEXUAL ATTITUDES REASSESSMENT) FOR AASECT CANDIDATES (3 day intensive); Dr. Tina Shermer-Sellers
REDEEMING FOOD AND BODY (3 day intensive); Matthew Tieymeyer, LMHC and Diane Summers, CEDRD
PASSION FOR LIFE: COUPLES INTIMACY RETREAT (4 day intensive); Dr. Tina Shermer-Sellers
PSYCHOTIC ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION (2 day training); Dr. Avedis Panajian
2015:
ADVANCED CLINICAL SEXOLOGY (5 day intensive); Dr. Tina Shermer-Sellers
PRACTICUM I (5 day intensive); The Crucible Approach by Dr. David Schnarch and Dr. Ruth Morehouse
PRACTICUM II (5 day intensive); The Crucible Approach by Dr. David Schnarch and Dr. Ruth Morehouse
EXTRA-RELATIONAL AFFAIRS (4 day intensive); Dr. David Schnarch and Dr. Ruth Morehouse
WOMEN'S INTEGRATIVE SEX THERAPY (3 day intensive); Dr. Gina Ogden
EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE IN WORKING WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERS (2 day training), Dr. Avedis Panajian
PASSIONATE MARRIAGE RETREAT (4 day intensive); Dr. David Schnarch and Dr. Ruth Morehouse
2014:
WOMEN'S SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION CONFERENCE (3 day intensive); Dr. Ruth Morehouse
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