About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Oshiver is a licensed marriage and family therapist and clinical social worker with four decades of experience. She focuses on practical, person-centered care and helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, relationship problems, and addictions. She uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's goals at the center of sessions.
Jacqueline also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices and imagery are used when helpful to calm the body and increase present-moment awareness.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience in clinical work and university teaching. That history shapes a steady, calm style that values the person's life experience and strengths. The work aims to help people feel more at peace and cope better with everyday demands.
Jacqueline pays attention to how relationships, work, and life transitions affect feelings and behavior. She helps people facing trauma, depression, bipolar concerns, parenting stress, caregiving burdens, and compassion fatigue. She also works with issues around attachment, abandonment, communication, and blended family dynamics.
Sessions are offered by a New Jersey clinician who holds licenses as an LMFT and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York. Conversations are collaborative and paced to the person's needs, with practical steps and skills to use between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Jacqueline combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people make practical changes. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and following the person's goals so sessions feel respectful and collaborative. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into concrete patterns and teaches tools to shift them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when relationship patterns and attachment issues are central. EFT-style work helps people name underlying emotions and change how they connect with others. Choosing the right approach is part of the process; Jacqueline works with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for in-depth conversations and watching nonverbal cues, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can serve for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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