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Jaylee Wachholder, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker 113828
Jaylee has passion for supporting military families as a former military & current veteran spouse to a 20 year retired veteran. She has experience working with adult individuals in numerous capacities including: depression, anxiety, adjustments, grief and loss, family conflicts, psychiatric disorders, supporting justice-involved clients managing dual diagnoses and treating individuals with addictions in various treatment settings. She has a passion for healing from trauma and overcoming addictive behaviors including substance abuse, codependency, and other addictive compulsive and maladaptive coping skills. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Solution Focused therapy, and takes a trauma informed approach. Jaylee has a Masters in Clinical Social Work from California Baptist University in 2019. Jaylee has more than 4+ years of experience as a therapist providing care.
Tina Jaworski, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker 102023
Tina loves teens! She enjoys helping families with communication, improving self confidence and self esteem and supporting during life’s challenges. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the State of California. She has a Master’s degree in Social Work. Tina in the counseling field for many years in a variety of settings including residential group homes and community-based services. Tina takes a strengths-based, client centered approach to counseling, she has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy Facilitator (DBT) and Trauma focused CBT. As a licensed clinician a Grow Through Life Counseling she supports individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, anger, self esteem issues, trauma and adjustment.
Erica McDaniel, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker 100020, Clinical Supervisor & Director of Clinical Leadership
Erica is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a wide range of experience from small children to adults and enjoys working with people from all walks of life. She believes everyone has a unique and incredible story to tell and feels honored to be the one to hear it. Erica is rooted in attachment and psychodynamic theories and always comes in with a client-centered, strength based approach. She specializes in trauma, but believes the most important aspect of therapy is the therapeutic alliance between clinician and client. Once that is established, she believes anything is possible. Erica is a second generation LCSW and has spent the last 15 years in the helping field. Out of college, she worked as a case manager to children and families with special needs, and then for a mental health non-profit. While in grad school, she spent her practicum as a school social worker working with middle schoolers and teen moms and obtained her Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC). After grad school, she spent 4 years in the adoptions program of Child Welfare Services working with foster youth, biological families, and adoptive families. Once licensed, she worked in a community mental health clinic with adults diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness. Finally, she found herself at GTL working with active duty military and military family members. She has loved every experience and population she has encountered and it has only deepened her passion for helping others. Erica has her Bachelors of Arts in English from UC Berkeley and her Masters of Social Work from San Diego State University. In addition to being a clinician at GTL, Erica is also a clinical supervisor and a clinical lead of the Oceanside office. In November of 2023, she was promoted to Director of Clinical Leadership because of her talent to lead and provide support to our team at large.