About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of practice. She is licensed as an LCSW and also holds an LMSW credential. Jacqueline works from Michigan and draws on a mix of approaches to help people move forward from painful experiences.
She often supports people coping with anxiety, stress, ADHD, or career and parenting pressures. She also helps those who have faced physical, emotional, or sexual trauma.
Background and approach
Relationship concerns, intimacy questions, and problems with communication or commitment are common topics in her work. Jacqueline’s style is warm, direct, and non-judgmental. She listens closely, asks practical questions, and teaches skills people can use between sessions.
Her goal is to help clients feel more in control and more able to make the changes they want. Clinically, she uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral work and EMDR techniques alongside attachment-based ideas. She incorporates inner child healing and tailors plans to each person’s needs.
Sessions include skill-building and talking through the patterns that keep problems going. She offers flexible weekday hours and some evening times on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
Jacqueline encourages small first steps and supports people through the early changes that follow. To begin, a simple match and scheduling process connects people to her practice, and she works with each person to set clear, realistic goals for therapy.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react the way they do in close relationships and supports building healthier connections. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and change unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit those needs. Plans are adjusted as work progresses so the approach can shift if something else would be more helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat let people get support between appointments or when they prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Indiana, California
- Languages
- English