About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Lizarazo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Jacqueline uses practical, direct approaches and encourages people to use their own strengths as the foundation for change.
Jacqueline centers conversations on each person’s story and goals. She listens without judgment and offers feedback that can feel challenging at times.
How Jacqueline works
Clients should expect clear suggestions and occasional homework to practice new skills between sessions. Her work blends client-centered care with structured techniques. Jacqueline draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thought patterns and on dialectical behavior methods to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing appear in session to increase awareness and strengthen motivation for change. She has helped people cope with a range of experiences related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, commitment and control issues, substance concerns, and end-of-life worries. Her approach aims to make progress feel concrete and understandable.
Jacqueline invites people who are willing to reflect and do practice between meetings. She works collaboratively to set achievable goals and to adjust pace based on each person’s needs. The focus is on steady growth and clearer coping skills.
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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
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Jacqueline uses client-centered methods to place each person's story and priorities at the center of therapy. This approach helps people feel heard and allows goals to guide the work rather than a fixed agenda.She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to build emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness when strong emotions get in the way.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will discuss your concerns, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what helps you make steady progress. She aims to match strategies to your goals and pace, so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins, and chat or text can support quick check-ins or ongoing practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when travel or schedules change.
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