Troika Jackson-Grillo
Restorative therapy rooted in strengths
LMFT California
- Experience
- 13 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Family, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Troika
Troika Jackson-Grillo is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who concentrates on helping people navigate family struggles, trauma, grief, self-esteem concerns, and LGBT-related challenges.
Background and approach
She frames clients as experts on their own lives and emphasizes strengths they already possess while offering clinical guidance to address disruptions like abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, and communication problems. Her work blends practical, evidence-informed methods with depth-oriented exploration.
Troika draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and adjust unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and uses attachment-based perspectives to understand relational patterns that repeat across generations. She also brings client-centered principles that prioritize empathy and collaboration, and incorporates existential and Jungian ideas when clients seek meaning, identity, or symbolic understanding of life transitions.
With 13 years of professional experience in California and the credential CA LMFT 118788, she supports people facing issues from dissociation and impulsivity to hospice and end-of-life counseling. Troika encourages those ready to begin to take the next step, recognizing that starting therapy is a courageous decision and that progress builds from a trusting, partnered process.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Troika commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify thinking patterns and develop practical strategies for changing unhelpful behaviors, which can be useful for problems like low self-esteem, impulsivity, and mood regulation. She also incorporates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships influence current attachments and communication, helping clients address patterns such as abandonment, codependency, and family-of-origin issues. Client-Centered Therapy informs her stance in sessions through an emphasis on empathy and collaboration, creating space for clients to guide the pace and focus of their work.Choosing the right approach is collaborative rather than fixed. Troika works with each person to determine which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts strategies over time as therapy progresses to reflect what is most helpful for the client.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people managing busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions remove geographic constraints, and live chat or text-based messaging can support check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing reflection between synchronous appointments. These formats aim to make consistent care more accessible while preserving the therapist-client collaboration that guides therapeutic change.
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Experience
13+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English