I HELP womeN become the main characters of their own stories.
Jaimi Brooks, LMFT No. 120982
A little about me, I...Am a licensed psychotherapist specializing in women’s lives and experiences.
Founded The Well Lived Woman, a community created to help women connect, grow, and build lives that feel meaningful and fully their own.
Lead Well Lived Woman Groups, where women can explore parts of life that individual therapy does not always make room for.
Am a writer, entrepreneur, mother of twins, and a divorced woman living through much of the same human work I talk about.
Studied psychology at UCLA and received my graduate training at Pepperdine University.
Worked in UCLA’s Marriage Lab studying what makes relationships succeed.
Have specialized training in grief and sex therapy.
Believe women deserve places where they can be honest, complicated, ambitious, uncertain, desirous, angry, playful, and entirely themselves.
helping women know what is true for them
To understand the forces that have shaped you without remaining beholden to them. To become less frightened of your feelings. To question the rules you have inherited about who you should be, what you should tolerate, and what you are allowed to want. And, little by little, to build trust in your own perceptions, desires, and decisions.
Insight matters, but insight alone does not change a life. Our work is also about what happens outside the therapy room: the conversations you have, the boundaries you hold, the choices you make, and the ways you begin to live differently.
I am not the kind of therapist who sits quietly and blinks at you.
A LIfe that feels like your own.
I have always paid close attention to people…the stories they tell, the patterns they repeat, what makes them come alive, and what keeps them from living in ways that feel true to them.
Long before I became a therapist, I was trying to understand what makes a good life. I wanted to learn from people’s choices, mistakes, relationships, and successes. That instinct became the foundation of my work: listening closely enough to see someone in the fullness of who she is, while also seeing the possibilities she may not yet be able to see for herself.
I work exclusively with women, particularly those carrying the complicated weight of trying to have it all while wondering why a life that looks good from the outside doesn’t always feel good from within.
I am not the kind of therapist who sits quietly and blinks at you.
My clients come to me when grappling with anxiety, perfectionism, resentment, relationship struggles, motherhood complications, infertility, divorce, questions about identity and desire, or simply the growing awareness that something in their lives needs to change. Together, we begin with what feels most pressing and follow it toward the deeper patterns, beliefs, and longings underneath.
Much of my work is about helping women know what is true for them, to feel entitled to what they want, take up more space in their own lives, and stop organizing themselves around being agreeable, impressive, or convenient. These are big concepts but we get down to what they mean in a lived sense.
I don’t believe the purpose of therapy is to turn you into a more functional version of who everyone else needs you to be.
