About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people navigate anxiety and other life challenges. She holds LCSW and LMSW credentials and sees clients from Michigan. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel heard and regain control.
Jacqueline focuses on practical skills and healing work. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques and EMDR methods alongside attachment-based ideas to address trauma, relationship wounds, and persistent anxiety.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through problems, practicing new skills, and shaping a plan that fits each person. People come to her with a wide range of concerns. These include relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career transitions, anger, ADHD, and responses to past abuse or trauma.
She also supports people dealing with chronic health conditions, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm, direct, and non-judgmental. Jacqueline aims to create an interactive space where people can name patterns and try different tools.
She teaches coping strategies to manage symptoms while working toward deeper change. Jacqueline offers appointments by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions are scheduled to fit clients in different time zones when possible, and cost varies by location and subscription.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect someone to her practice.
Using attachment, CBT, and EMDR online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions. It helps people notice patterns in their current relationships and try new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and behavior change. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, addresses distress linked to traumatic memories by using guided processing alongside talk work.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Jacqueline will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaboration can mean mixing approaches over time, trying skills first, or moving into deeper processing when the person feels ready.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for skills practice and EMDR work when appropriate. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing coaching, brief check-ins, and skill reinforcement between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Indiana, California
- Languages
- English
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