About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Arcand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She focuses on improving motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Jacqueline writes in plain terms and works with clients to find practical steps forward.
She approaches therapy as a partnership where the client is the expert in their own story. Sessions are a space to ask what went wrong, how it happened, and what can change now.
Background and approach
Jacqueline draws on several therapeutic styles to meet each person where they are. Her background includes a decade of professional practice and licensure as an LCSW. Over that time she has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, codependency, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues tied to family of origin and attachment.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, eating and anger problems, and challenges tied to major life changes. Jacqueline uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. That lets her tailor sessions to a person’s needs, combining practical tools with deeper narrative and attachment work.
She helps clients set small goals and build on successes. Her style tends to be direct, compassionate, and focused on useful next steps. Jacqueline encourages people to try manageable changes and notice what helps.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make it clearer and more doable.
How Jacqueline’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation to identify attachment wounds and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and building concrete coping skills to reduce anxiety and depression. In sessions clients learn small experiments and skills to try between meetings. EMDR helps people process traumatic memories by pairing focused recall with bilateral stimulation; it can reduce the intensity of painful memories and their impact on daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest options and try methods collaboratively. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress or new needs emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls let the therapist and client see one another and work in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, more frequent check-ins and homework support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or travel routines while keeping the focus on practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Alaska
- Languages
- English