About Jaeron-Rae
Jaeron-Rae Dukes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and grief. They offer calm, practical support for stress, trauma, addiction concerns, and parenting pressures. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can use between meetings.
They keep the conversation warm and interactive. The client’s experience guides each session and Jaeron-Rae aims to listen first, then suggest tools that fit daily life. Work often includes breathing and grounding exercises, communication practice, and taking small behavioral steps.
Background and approach
Jaeron-Rae combines several evidence-based approaches in straightforward ways. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Attachment-Based methods look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. They have three years of professional experience and hold the LPC credential in South Dakota. Jaeron-Rae has worked with a broad range of concerns including trauma, dissociation, eating and sleeping issues, and addiction-related challenges.
They also have an interest in supporting LGBT people and transgender clients. In sessions Jaeron-Rae aims to create pragmatic goals clients can try between appointments. Conversations are paced to match each person’s comfort level, focusing on what helps most right now.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who want a collaborative therapist will find that Jaeron-Rae checks in about goals and adjusts methods as needed. They encourage small experiments in daily life to build confidence and reduce anxiety over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
Jaeron-Rae draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT sessions often include homework like tracking thoughts or testing out new actions to see what helps.Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and intimacy. This approach helps people identify repeating patterns and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying things, checking what works, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people use visual feedback and body language during sessions. Phone appointments can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between full sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family life, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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