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Jodi Klugman-Rabb is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Marin County. She has worked in the San Rafael and Novato schools, San Rafael Police Youth Services Bureau, Jewish Family and Children's Services of the East Bay and several Marin County non-profits.

Jodi received her master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University in San Rafael in 2001 and has maintained a private practice in Marin since 2004. Professional education also includes certification in Mediation and Grief and Loss Therapy from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also certified in parenting skills training from The Parent Project™ and has lead groups for parents of at risk youth with the San Rafael Police Department.

Jodi served as the Anger Management Coordinator for Full Circle Family Institute before establishing her private practice and is now known for her work with anger management and domestic violence.  She now works closely with the Family Violence Court, probation officers and social workers to educate mandated or self-referred clients on the appropriate use of healthy anger with practical tools or alongside parenting skills.  Since trauma and anger are often linked, Jodi can utilize her Level II certification in EMDR as an adjunct therapy. 

Jodi innovated a new concept of counseling she terms wedding coaching, specifically focused on addressing and resolving the emotional and behavioral strain experienced when blending two families during the wedding process.  She has taken the idea of pre-marital counseling and applied the practical application of Cognitive-Behavioral communication skills to all family generations rather then just the couple.

Jodi received training in the Minuchin and Whitaker styles of Family Therapy and uses a combination of Cognitive-Behavioral and Attachment theory with elements of Dialectic Behavioral Therapy to round out her clinical approach - believing it's better to take into account the whole nature of a person with a well-rounded approach.  Jodi likes the practical nature of the Cognitive-Behavioral style, finding it blends well with the theories of emotional attachment, the use of EMDR for trauma and the Gottman Method for couples counseling for which Jodi is trained in Levels I & II.

Jodi consideres herself a community-based practitioner, who believes in the holistic approach to wellness of community and individual health.  Reflecting a modern approach to overall well-being, Jodi incorporates her interests in the effect of nutrition on mood and behavior as well as the impact of lifestyle on emotional management and overall personal satisfaction.

Believing it to be important to give back to the community, Jodi has served on the volunteer Board of Directors for the Marin Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists for many years, and is now serving as President for the 2011 term.  She also volunteers her clinical skills as an EMDR therapist for the West Coast Post Trauma Retreat which treats the traumas of first responders from across North America.  Although Jodi does not participate with insurance panels, she does believe in the importance of offering care to those who are disenfranchized and accepts Victim Witness compensation through the State of California and MediCal  insurance through Marin County.

Finally, as a Marin native, Jodi is intimately familiar with the unique upbringing Marin County and Bay Area life provides.  She is raising her own family with two small children in Marin and practices enforcing the same limits, positive reinforcement, consideration and mutual respect she counsels her clients to employ.