About Jorrene
Jorrene Vaughn is a Licensed Master Social Worker with over three decades of clinical experience. She has worked in hospital settings, including psychiatric units and a Veterans Administration hospital, as well as in outpatient independent practice. Jorrene focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on navigating life's harder moments.
She draws on psychodynamic ideas and cognitive-behavioral tools to help people understand patterns that keep causing pain. She also uses acceptance-based and mindfulness approaches to support present-moment coping and values-driven action.
Background and approach
These methods are used to address depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and relationship concerns. Jorrene emphasizes a genuine, present therapeutic relationship. She aims to listen closely and reflect what she hears so clients can find direction for themselves.
She rarely gives direct advice and avoids telling people what to do. Her work includes help with self-esteem, anger, body image, codependency, commitment and communication issues. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, aging concerns, and family of origin wounds.
Practical coping skills are blended with longer-term exploration of underlying patterns. Clients can expect sessions that balance short-term strategies with deeper conversation about life themes. Jorrene brings calm steadiness and a long history of clinical practice to each meeting.
She practices in Michigan and conducts therapy in English.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often includes practical exercises and homework between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers on an accepting, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and reflects so the client can find their own direction and clarity.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend ways to proceed. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as the work unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be shorter or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for quick check-ins, written reflection, or when messaging fits a person's schedule. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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