About Jacquella
Jacquella Forgey-Carpenter is a Connecticut licensed clinical social worker with three years of practice. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people manage anger, parenting strain, and family conflict. She frames clients as the experts in their own stories and builds on existing strengths.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful. In sessions she uses clear, practical tools rather than jargon. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also incorporates dialectical behavior skills to teach breathing, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. Mindfulness practices are used to help clients notice what is happening in the moment without getting swept away. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
These methods are adapted to fit each person’s pace and goals. She often works with people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, or life changes that leave them unsure how to move forward. Communication problems, attachment concerns, and issues around guilt or forgiveness are addressed directly and practically.
Social anxiety, self-harm thoughts, and young adult transitions are also part of her focus. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Jacquella encourages straightforward conversations about what’s working and what needs to change, and she helps people build small, doable steps toward relief.
Approaches that translate to online care
Jacquella commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in her online work. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. She will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what fits the client's needs and preferences. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels workable for the person.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for longer conversations and skills practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, school, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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