About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn "Jackie" Taylor-Mays is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of practice in Tennessee. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems like stress, anxiety, grief, and mood concerns. Jackie meets people where they are and helps them identify small, useful steps forward.
She approaches therapy with the belief that each person knows their story best. Sessions center on the client's goals and strengths. Jackie uses clear, down-to-earth language to talk through worries and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Her experience includes working with addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem struggles, and parenting stress. Jackie also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, and life transitions. She brings two decades of practice to these concerns while keeping the focus on the person in front of her.
In sessions she draws on methods that help people understand patterns in relationships and daily life. That includes approaches that look at how thoughts shape behavior and how attachment and emotions affect close relationships. Jackie aims to make therapy a collaborative process where goals are practical and measurable.
People who choose Jackie often want straightforward feedback, tools they can use between sessions, and a clinician who listens without judgment. She encourages small experiments in daily life to test new ways of coping and relating.
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape how people respond to stress and conflict. It can help when anxiety, intimacy issues, or struggles with connection show up in daily life. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, offering a supportive setting where goals come from the client and progress moves at their pace; this approach is useful for building self-esteem and handling life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical strategies to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood symptoms.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as problems change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick updates, journaling between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity in treatment.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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