About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnson uses a client-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She brings 11 years of experience and holds MD and LCPC credentials. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
She focuses on trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and bipolar mood concerns. She also supports people dealing with life transitions and challenges to self-esteem. Her work includes communication problems and relationship struggles, with attention to how shame and guilt affect recovery.
Background and approach
Jacquelyn integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when useful. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support change, especially around substance use and other addictive behaviors. Sessions often include skill practice and step-by-step planning.
She pays attention to long-term medical and caregiving concerns, such as chronic pain, illness, disability, and aging-related stress. First responder issues and postpartum depression are listed areas of focus as well. Jacquelyn names prejudice and discrimination as factors she considers when working with clients.
In sessions she aims to help people build self-love, reconnect with life purpose, and reduce isolation. Practical tools, clearer communication, and coping skills are common goals. She works with clients in Maryland and carries out therapy in English.
Using evidence-based methods in online therapy
Jacquelyn blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT helps break problems into manageable steps, teaches coping strategies, and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. DBT-style techniques are useful for managing strong emotions, improving coping in crisis, and building healthier reactions to stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods to use and when to change direction.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video calls work well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in, and messaging or chat can support quick skill practice between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and make it easier to keep regular appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English