About Mary
Mary "Jackie" Downie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with twenty years of counseling experience. She meets people where they are and helps them take practical steps toward feeling more stable. Jackie often works with anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and trauma, and she talks clients through doable changes they can try right away.
Jackie begins by looking for what has worked for a person before. She asks about strengths and past solutions and uses those as building blocks.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, everyday strategies and small shifts in thinking and behavior that can add up over time. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including attention challenges, panic and social anxiety, mood disorders, addiction, and coping with major life changes.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, family of origin problems, and forgiveness or guilt and shame. Jackie uses practical methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, solution-focused steps, and trauma-focused approaches. She frames therapy as a collaboration where the client’s goals guide the plan.
Clients who choose Jackie can expect straightforward conversation, concrete tools to try between sessions, and attention to the person behind the problem. She practices in Wyoming and offers sessions that match real-life schedules and needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and can identify what matters most to them. Online sessions use that same approach to help people name strengths and goals and decide what to try next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests small changes. In remote sessions CBT can include homework or brief exercises between meetings to practice new ways of thinking and coping with anxiety or panic.
Trauma-focused work concentrates on safety, pacing, and processing past events in ways that reduce their impact on daily life. When done online this approach can move at a careful pace while allowing clients to use tools they find helpful in their everyday routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and symptoms and then suggest methods to try. That plan can change as progress is made so the work stays practical and personally useful.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit therapy into busy days, choose shorter check-ins or longer conversations, and pick the format that best suits their energy, bandwidth, and comfort level.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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