About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Dougherty uses a client-centered and attachment-informed approach to help people feel understood and build stronger connections. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with six years of experience. Jacqueline focuses on clear, practical steps people can try between sessions.
She keeps language simple and meetings focused on immediate needs. Jacqueline helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, and trauma and abuse. She also addresses grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and struggles with addiction and eating concerns.
How Jacqueline works
Intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career concerns, and compassion fatigue are part of her day-to-day work. Her method combines Attachment-Based ideas about safety in relationships with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to manage overwhelming emotions, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy guides work on connection and closeness.
Sessions are shaped around what the person needs and what works for them. Jacqueline draws on six years of clinical experience to tailor conversations and practical plans. She listens for patterns that cause repeated problems and helps people test small changes.
Homework tasks and skill practice are offered when useful to build confidence and momentum. People who contact Jacqueline can expect a respectful, direct style and a focus on doable strategies. She aims to make the process manageable so clients can feel progress in daily life.
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What Jacqueline works with
The areas below are the ones Jacqueline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care and relationship issues
Jacqueline commonly blends Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address relationship patterns and daily thinking that keep problems stuck. Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationship experiences shape feelings of safety and connection, which helps when intimacy or abandonment concerns come up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, offering practical steps to test new ways of thinking and behaving. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions feel intense or overwhelming. DBT provides concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be useful for mood disorders, anger, and impulsive behaviors. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jacqueline will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adapts methods as progress unfolds so treatment matches changing needs and aims. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and relationship work, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, caregiving, or busy days.Start online instead of waiting
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