About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Lizarazo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on client-centered care for people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She draws on five years of clinical experience to guide clients through hard moments and help them rebuild confidence. Jacqueline keeps sessions direct and practical so progress feels real.
Jacqueline believes each person knows their own story best. She listens first and then helps people name what is getting in the way.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes skills practice, gentle challenge, and reflection so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior techniques are added when emotions run high and clients need concrete ways to calm themselves and stay on track.
A client-centered stance guides the work; Jacqueline brings motivation-focused strategies when people feel stuck or unsure how to move forward. Mindfulness practices are woven in to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of the present moment.
Jacqueline also supports people facing complex life issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, body image struggles, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and grief related to hospice or end-of-life. She offers straightforward feedback, practical homework, and steady encouragement.
Based in Illinois, Jacqueline draws on her LCSW background to help people set goals, practice new skills, and build a clearer path forward. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on what helps the individual most.
How Jacqueline Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Jacqueline often combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered work means she starts by listening and building a clear sense of each person’s goals and strengths. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy adds practical emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. Jacqueline collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in about what is working and adjusts the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let most people replicate an in-person appointment. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or quick coping reminders between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois
- Languages
- English