Jeffrey Stambook, LMFT

Jeffrey Stambook is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who has built a career helping individuals, couples, and families navigate relationship and life challenges. He began his work in mental health in 1998 in a small farming community outside of Bakersfield, California, where he provided case management for children and families through a community health clinic. That early experience shaped his commitment to ongoing education and to developing the clinical skills needed to serve a wide range of clients.

He later worked in several settings, including a period at a mental hospital, before opening a private practice after becoming licensed in California in 2006. Throughout his work he emphasizes the importance of being truly heard, offering clients a respectful, sensitive, and nonjudgmental space to explore their concerns. He describes listening as one of his most valuable clinical gifts and aims to help clients identify practical solutions while honoring their experiences.

Clinically he leans on a cognitive-behavioral perspective, helping people examine and change habits and patterns such as negative thinking. Marriage and couples work are central to his practice; he has training in the methods of Drs. John and Julie Gottman and uses their material with most couples he sees. Jeffrey works with a broad range of issues including relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting and fatherhood issues, midlife concerns, and workplace or career-related stress. He encourages seeking help earlier rather than waiting for crisis, noting that many people wish they had started counseling sooner.