About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Oshiver is a licensed psychotherapist with a long career helping people manage stress and anxiety. She holds both LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) and LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) credentials and practices in New Jersey. Jacqueline aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about hard things and begin to feel steadier.
She takes a client-centered approach, listening first and tailoring what comes next to each person.
Background and approach
Jacqueline combines practical cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to address worry, depression, grief, and addiction. She also draws on emotionally focused and psychodynamic ideas when relationships and deeper patterns show up. Many clients bring relationship struggles, parenting stress, career pressures, or trauma histories.
Jacqueline helps people work through intimacy concerns, family-of-origin pain, codependency, and challenges like bipolar disorder or ADHD by focusing on clear goals and small, workable steps. She pays attention to how life changes, losses, and caregiver strain affect daily functioning. With about 40 years of experience, Jacqueline uses straightforward tools alongside reflective listening.
Sessions often include skills practice, thought restructuring, mindfulness exercises, and reviewing progress between meetings. Her style is practical and compassionate, aimed at helping people regain more calm and purpose in their lives. Jacqueline offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for people in New Jersey.
She works collaboratively to set goals and adapt therapy to each person's pace and needs.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Jacqueline uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness practices in remote sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs so they feel heard and respected; it helps when someone wants a steady, empathetic place to talk through stress or life changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce worry, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy brings gentle attention to the present moment; simple breathing and grounding exercises can reduce overwhelm and support coping with anxiety and grief.Choosing the right mix of approaches is a shared process. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adjust methods as work progresses. The plan evolves over time, with regular checks to see what helps and what needs changing.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and practice new skills in daily life.
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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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