About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Dougherty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She draws on several practical approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, and phobias. Jacqueline aims to create a calm space to talk about what feels hard and figure out next steps together.
She uses straightforward methods to address common concerns like trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and problems with motivation. Conversations focus on skills that can be used between sessions and on small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Jacqueline also helps people coping with life transitions and with challenges tied to addiction, mood shifts, and attention differences. Her style blends Client-Centered work with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. That means sessions often combine empathic listening with practical exercises and step-by-step plans.
Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused techniques inform how she thinks about relationship patterns and closeness issues. Jacqueline brings six years of professional experience to her practice in Florida. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation rather than using the same approach for everyone.
She treats clients with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping them set realistic, manageable goals. Starting is seen as a team effort. Jacqueline encourages small first steps and helps people stay motivated as they try new strategies.
Her aim is to make therapy useful and doable for everyday life.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of closeness and trust. It helps people notice how early connections shape current relationships and find new ways to feel safer in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and respected. Sessions center on the person’s concerns, with the therapist offering supportive listening and guidance to help clarify goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She will try different tools and adjust the plan as progress or obstacles appear, keeping decisions shared and practical.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy schedules. Video works well for deeper conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good option when a headset or quiet space is easier. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and quick coaching between longer sessions. These options help people keep momentum and apply new strategies in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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