About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, ADHD, relationship struggles, and life transitions. She holds LCSW and LMSW credentials and practices from Michigan. Jacqueline aims to create a respectful and direct space where people can begin changing patterns that hold them back.
She sees people facing trauma, including physical, emotional, or sexual harm, and those wrestling with low self-worth, people-pleasing, anger, or parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Jacqueline also helps with career strain, caregiver stress, and issues tied to intimacy and commitment. Her approach is practical and focused on skills people can use between sessions. Jacqueline describes her style as warm, non-judgmental, and interactive.
She uses a mix of client-centered conversation, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and EMDR strategies to address painful memories and unhelpful thinking. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs rather than following a single script. Her work often includes inner child healing and attachment-informed ideas to help clients understand how early patterns affect current relationships.
She combines skill teaching with deeper processing so people both feel better day to day and build longer-term change. Jacqueline practices in Michigan and schedules appointments during weekday hours, with some evening options on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She supports people who want a clear plan, practical tools, and a compassionate but straightforward guide through change.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and skill building
Jacqueline uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, stress, ADHD-related challenges, and mood concerns. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy and communication, helping people improve connection and boundaries. EMDR techniques are used when working through traumatic memories and strong emotional reactions, supporting processing and reduction of distress associated with past events.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their situation and comfort level. Over time she adjusts the plan so sessions feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is often used for in-depth work and skill practice, phone calls for lower-bandwidth conversations or quick check-ins, live chat for shorter exchanges, and messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and busy schedules while keeping a steady path toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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