About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn "Jackie" Taylor-Mays is a licensed clinical social worker in Tennessee with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Jackie centers care on each person’s strengths and readiness for change.
Jackie works in a practical, down-to-earth way. She treats clients as the experts of their own stories and helps them build tools that fit their life. Sessions often focus on clearer communication, healthier coping, and small steps that add up.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with people facing relationship strain, grief, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with sleep and eating concerns, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and career transition. Jackie pays attention to patterns like attachment, codependency, and cycles of control.
Jackie uses several therapeutic approaches to match the person and the problem. She blends methods to target thoughts, emotions, and relationship patterns. This flexible approach aims to improve day-to-day functioning and connections with others.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation and practical strategies. Jackie emphasizes small, doable changes and building confidence over time. Her goal is to support people as they move toward more satisfying and manageable lives.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and relationships
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns of closeness and distance and improve how they connect with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jackie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. Together they review what is helping, what isn’t, and adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make access easier. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break during the day. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges when that works better. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English