About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Oshiver offers a client-centered approach that places the person's experience at the heart of therapy. She combines practical strategies and reflective work to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, and addictions. Jacqueline brings a calm, steady presence and aims to help people feel more able to cope and move forward.
With 40 years of clinical work, Jacqueline uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
How Jacqueline works
She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection in relationships and on mindfulness practices to ease stress and increase awareness. Sessions are collaborative and built around what each person needs in the moment. Her New Jersey practice supports people dealing with intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, ADHD, bipolar challenges, career stress, compassion fatigue, and family-of-origin issues.
Jacqueline also helps with abandonment wounds, communication problems, control and codependency patterns, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Jacqueline holds licensure as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She blends clinical methods with life experience to guide people through major changes and losses.
Her aim is practical: to restore daily functioning and a sense of well-being. Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills that can be used between meetings. Jacqueline works with each person to tailor techniques to their situation and pace.
Jacqueline lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMFT, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Jacqueline uses client-centered methods that focus on the therapeutic relationship and what matters to the individual. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the work toward practical goals and better daily functioning.She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that interfere with work or relationships. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship patterns and attachment issues are central; these methods help people recognize feelings and shift interaction styles for closer connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Jacqueline collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts tools over time, combining skill-building, reflection, and mindfulness practices as needed.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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