About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rivers is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related stresses. She uses a straightforward, collaborative style to offer tools and perspective as clients work toward practical change. She prefers a client-centered approach that looks at relationships and life systems.
That means conversations often include patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect daily life. Jacqueline draws on attachment ideas and neurobiology to explain why certain reactions happen and what can shift them.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be goal-oriented and practical. Jacqueline blends solution-focused work with mindfulness exercises so people can test new ways of coping between meetings. She also uses trauma-focused methods when past events continue to interfere with current life.
Her background includes a Master of Science in Family and Child Science with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy and a Bachelor of Science in Family and Human Development. Jacqueline has been practicing for about 10 years in New Mexico and holds an LMFT credential. People often come for anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, or life transitions.
She also helps with parenting stress, career questions, identity and intimacy concerns, and challenges related to caregiving or serious illness. Jacqueline offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works with each person to choose approaches and session formats that fit their daily life and goals.
Online care grounded in attachment and trauma work
Jacqueline often integrates attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships shape current stress and anxiety. This approach explains patterns in how people relate and suggests concrete shifts to improve connection and reduce reactivity. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used when past trauma continues to cause distress; it focuses on reducing the hold of troubling memories so daily life becomes easier. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help when strong emotions or racing thoughts take over.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their goals, try a few methods, and adapt the plan based on what helps most. She aims to match techniques to practical needs and personal preferences rather than use a single fixed method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and guided exercises, phone calls can fit a break at work or travel, and chat or text can be helpful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options let people use therapy in the ways that best fit their routines and energy levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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