About Jacqueline
Jacqueline McDowell is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people coping with stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing relationship problems, grief, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. Jacqueline offers a calm, creative presence and invites clients to explore practical ways to feel better in day-to-day life.
Jacqueline draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps toward what matters to them.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Sessions are person-centred and practical, with time for creative expression if that feels useful. Her background includes four years of clinical experience and ongoing professional development as a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Jacqueline combines counselling skills with an artist’s perspective, offering alternative ways to reflect on feelings and decisions. In sessions she aims to make things straightforward and manageable. Conversations focus on concrete coping strategies, small behavioural experiments, and values-based goals.
Jacqueline encourages clients to set realistic steps between sessions and reassess progress together. She offers video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what suits them. International clients who speak English may also work with her.
To begin, people follow the platform’s matching steps and schedule sessions once a good fit is found.
How Jacqueline’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, value-driven steps even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is often helpful for anxiety and stress because it shifts attention from trying to control feelings to building a life worth living.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviours. It is practical and problem-focused, which can make it useful for sleep issues, eating-related concerns, low mood and anxiety.
Attachment-based ideas look at early relationship patterns and how they shape current ways of relating. This can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems and understanding repeated relationship patterns.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods together. The process is collaborative and reviewed as progress is made.
Online sessions allow a range of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging can fit into busy days. These options give flexibility so people can find what fits their schedule and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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