About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn "Jackie" Taylor-Mays is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience in Tennessee. She takes a straightforward, strengths-based approach and centers each conversation on the person's own goals and values. Jackie emphasizes practical steps and steady support to help people move toward healthier habits and relationships.
Jackie helps people handle stress and anxiety, manage addictions, and rebuild self-esteem and motivation. She also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, grief, and the emotional impact of chronic illness.
How Jacquelyn works
Her work includes support for eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, career transitions, and coping with life changes. Her practice pays attention to attachment and communication patterns that shape how people relate to others. Jackie uses client-centered techniques to listen deeply and to help clients identify strengths they already have.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and on emotionally-focused methods to improve closeness and connection. People who come for help can expect a direct but compassionate style. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical strategies that can be used between meetings.
Jackie aims to empower people to make steady progress while honoring the pace that feels right for them. Her background includes two decades of work across a range of settings, which informs a flexible and experienced approach. Jackie conducts sessions in English and works with adults in Tennessee who want to address mental health, relationship, or life transition concerns.
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What Jacquelyn works with
The areas below are the ones Jacquelyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and connection
Jacquelyn uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds affect current relationships, helping people notice patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy is central too, which means sessions start with listening and reflecting so the person sets the pace and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and practice.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jackie will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest techniques to try. This collaborative process means approaches can be adapted as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to use alongside daily life.
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