About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Porras is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She also supports those struggling with self-esteem, motivation, and major life changes. Jacqueline speaks English and Spanish and brings three years of clinical experience to her work.
She aims for respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care. Conversations and plans are tailored to each person’s needs. Jacqueline focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions to manage symptoms and build confidence.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and small actions to try. Sessions are intended to feel like problem-solving conversations rather than lectures.
Jacqueline often helps people learn coping tools for panic, social anxiety, and mood swings. She supports people who are dealing with past trauma, feelings of emptiness, or relationship and family stress. She also addresses pregnancy and childbirth concerns and issues common to women’s health.
People who work with Jacqueline can expect straightforward plans and regular check-ins on progress. She adjusts strategies when something isn’t working and encourages self-compassion throughout the process. Her practice welcomes people ready to make concrete changes and try manageable steps toward feeling better.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Jacqueline uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. She focuses on approaches that teach practical skills for managing anxiety and mood problems. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This kind of work is useful for panic attacks, social anxiety, and everyday worries.Another approach emphasizes learning concrete coping skills - such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning - to manage stress and trauma reactions in the moment. These tools aim to lower intense feelings and help people feel more in control during difficult moments.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. She will talk with clients about their goals, try approaches that seem to fit, and adapt plans based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist make decisions together about pace and focus so therapy matches needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work with lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, childcare, and daily life while still working toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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