About Jacklyn
Jacklyn Amankwa-Amoyaw is a licensed clinician in Maryland with ten years of professional experience. She holds an MD and is an LCSW-C, and she focuses on practical help for people dealing with everyday stressors. Her approach respects each person's strengths and history while offering steady support during hard moments.
She listens first and lets the person tell their story. Conversations focus on what is most pressing - relationship and intimacy concerns, anxiety and stress, self-esteem, and career pressures.
Background and approach
Sessions also address parenting strain, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, and life transitions that leave people feeling stuck. Jacklyn uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness alongside a client-centered stance. That means she helps clients notice patterns of thinking and behavior, try small experiments, and practice skills that calm the body and mind.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She has worked with issues tied to attachment, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, body image, and immigration-related stress. Her clinical experience extends to challenges like abandonment, forgiveness, guilt, and fertility concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and Akan. Jacklyn aims to empower people to make manageable changes over time and to build routines that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's own goals and perspective. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client find their own solutions. This approach helps people who want support in making decisions about relationships, career moves, or parenting.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. The therapist and client identify unhelpful patterns, test new ways of thinking, and try small behavioral experiments. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep troubles, and low mood.
Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support calmer thinking. It pairs well with CBT techniques when people want tools to manage anxiety in the moment.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts those choices over time based on what helps.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or quick skill practice, and the variety helps people keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English, Akan
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