Jeremy Oziel, LMSW

Specialties: anxiety, OCD, EMDR, self-esteem, couples, people pleasing, dating/relationships.

Rates: $205 · individual session | $255 · couples session

“It takes a lot of courage to pause and make room for the feelings you’ve been putting off or pushing aside. Many of us move through life trying to meet other’s expectations, avoid conflict, or try to maintain the appearance that everything’s fine. Over time, that can leave us unsure of what we really want, stuck in our heads, replaying conversations, and disconnected from our own instincts. We will untangle those patterns so you're not just moving through life on someone else’s terms, but living in a way that feels more grounded, authentic, and truly your own.”

Q & A

How do you describe your counseling style?

My approach is warm, relational, and attuned. I listen closely to your words, as well as your inner experience and the emotions beneath them. Trusting someone with your deepest vulnerabilities is incredibly courageous and it requires us to build real trust with one another. I weave in mindfulness to help you track what’s happening in your body and inner world in real time. When it’s helpful, I use EMDR to support the processing of distressing experiences that may be stuck in your nervous system so that you’re not just talking about what’s hard, but actually moving through it.

Have you been in therapy yourself?

Yes, I’ve been in therapy and still am today! Therapy has been vital for me to understand who I am and who I want to be. It's helped me feel more secure in the choices I make in life including the one to become a therapist. Through it, I’ve become much more attuned to my body and what it might be telling me in any given moment. I see therapy as an ongoing process that shapes how I understand my own healing and strongly influences the way I support my clients.

What podcasts and books have made the biggest impact on your life?

One very impactful book in my life has been Unwinding Anxiety by psychiatrist and neuroscientist Judson Brewer. The book explores how anxiety is fueled by habit loops in the brain and patterns of worry and avoidance that reinforce themselves over time. He draws from neuroscience and mindfulness to offer a practical approach to breaking these loops by encouraging curiosity toward our thoughts and bodily sensations.

As an auditory learner, I love podcasts and I’ve learned a lot from is The Ezra Klein Show. There’s an episode called “What Buddhism Got Right About the Human Brain” that features an interview with author and journalist Robert Wright, and it really stayed with me. It fed my curiosity about mindfulness and meditation in a way that felt both intellectually grounding and personally meaningful. That episode became a turning point, leading me to commit to a regular meditation practice that has deeply shaped how I relate to myself, manage stress, and engage with life as a whole.