About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Bautista is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with two decades of clinical experience in California. She combines practical skills with a warm, interactive manner to help people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and ADHD. Jacqueline values respect and sensitivity and aims to meet people where they are.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Francisco State University and a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from California State University, East Bay.
Background and approach
Her graduate work emphasized cross-cultural issues, which informs how she sees cultural and immigration stresses in therapy. Jacqueline has extensive experience supporting people who have been through trauma or emotional abuse and those coping with major life changes. She has worked with youth and families in crisis and with adults navigating parenting challenges, career transitions, and caregiver strain.
Her background includes helping clients with compassion fatigue and first responder issues. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, and motivational interviewing. That means she helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts, set small achievable goals, and build motivation for change.
Jacqueline adapts her approach to each person's needs rather than following a single script. Her style is nonjudgmental and practical. She encourages finding daily moments of joy while addressing hard problems like trauma, intimacy-related concerns, and stress.
Jacqueline presents therapy as a collaborative process, guiding people toward clearer thinking and workable steps forward.
How Jacqueline’s Approaches Work Online
Jacqueline uses cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused techniques to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and small behaviors that keep problems going, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Solution-focused therapy centers on finding practical next steps and building on existing strengths to create forward motion on specific goals.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Jacqueline will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and life demands, and together they decide which techniques to try first. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods based on what helps the client make steady progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls work well on lower bandwidth, live chat fits a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, family, school, or other commitments while getting consistent therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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