About Jacquelyn
Dr. Jacquelyn Mentor welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, drained, or unsure where to turn. She is Dr.
Jacquelyn Mentor, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with more than two decades of practice. She listens without judgment and helps people find practical steps forward. She draws on a mix of client-centered and cognitive approaches to help people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and mood challenges.
Conversations focus on what feels most pressing and useful, and she offers simple tools and resources to support day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to feel calm, respectful, and supportive. Jacquelyn has deep personal experience with loss and illness, including being a breast cancer survivor and navigating widowhood and caregiving. Those experiences inform her empathy for people facing major life changes and grief.
She has worked extensively with people dealing with trauma, relationship strain, parenting stresses, and workplace issues. Her training includes a Doctor of Education in Counseling Psychology, a Master of Science in Psychology, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She holds Florida licensure as an LMHC and has years of experience supervising other counselors.
Her background includes many years addressing domestic violence, child abuse, developmental and behavioral concerns, and crisis situations. In sessions she emphasizes clear communication and small, achievable goals. She uses psychoeducation and practical strategies alongside listening and reflection.
Her aim is to help people feel steadier, make clearer choices, and regain a sense of control over daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. In practice this means sessions focus on listening, reflecting what matters to the client, and shaping goals the client finds meaningful. This approach supports work on relationships, grief, self-esteem, and coping with big life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes short exercises, simple homework, and step-by-step strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, or address ADHD-related routines. It is practical and goal oriented.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then combine methods collaboratively. That means checking in and adjusting methods as priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or brief reflections between sessions. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles while keeping the focus on practical progress and steady support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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