About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Galbreath Rabouin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Jacquelyn strives to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk about painful events and everyday worries. Sessions aim to help people name their feelings, notice unhelpful patterns, and try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Jacquelyn uses empathy and steady support to help clients take the first steps toward feeling better. Her background includes decades working with complex emotional issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, and codependency. She has experience addressing chronic pain, illness, and disability alongside mental health needs.
This broad experience helps her tailor practical steps to each person’s situation. Jacquelyn blends several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive tools to shift thoughts and behaviors, and techniques aimed at processing traumatic memories.
Mindfulness skills and emotion-focused work are also part of her approach when they fit the client’s goals. Therapy with Jacquelyn moves at a client’s pace. She emphasizes collaboration and clear goals so progress feels manageable.
Her aim is to help people build skills, repair relationships, and regain a sense of agency after loss or hurt.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Jacquelyn uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting, respectful connection where people can talk through their worries and goals. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and collaborating so the client feels heard and understood.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in everyday life. CBT is often useful for managing anxiety, stress, and mood problems because it gives clear, practical skills to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacquelyn will discuss options and adjust methods based on each person’s needs, goals, and comfort level. She aims to make decisions together so the plan fits the client’s life and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through multiple formats: video calls for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is an issue, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules, continue work during travel, or choose a format that feels easiest for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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