About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Tasca welcomes people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strain, addiction, trauma, and a range of life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, based in New York with twenty years of social work experience. Jacqueline works to create a calm space where people can be heard and begin to sort through what feels overwhelming.
She prefers direct, face-to-face moments and brings that same attention to online and phone sessions.
Background and approach
Jacqueline listens carefully and helps people name what is most troubling. She focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday life rather than long lectures or jargon. Her approach blends client-centered care with solution-focused work and cognitive behavioral tools.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help manage intense emotions and build coping skills. Sessions often include skills practice, problem-solving, and checking what is working between appointments. Jacqueline has worked in roles ranging from social work director to hands-on counseling.
That range gives her both broad perspective and practical problem-solving experience. She has supported people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, bereavement, parenting struggles, and adjustment after major life events. Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental stance and an emphasis on building trust first.
Jacqueline aims to help people move from crisis and confusion toward clearer plans and more manageable days. If someone wants a therapist who listens deeply and offers real tools, she may be a good fit.
How Jacqueline blends practical therapy with online care
Jacqueline uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s experience and priorities, helping people feel heard and guiding sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is also a core part of her work and helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that can reduce anxiety and depression.She approaches choosing methods as a team effort. Jacqueline will talk with the person about their goals and preferences, then suggest which tools to try first. Over time she adjusts the plan based on what helps and what feels doable in daily life.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls support a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferable, and live chat or text-based messaging let people check in between appointments or have shorter touchpoints. These options allow flexible scheduling and make it simpler to keep continuity of care when life is hectic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English