About Mary
Mary "Jackie" Downie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of counseling experience. She meets people where they are and helps them take the next step. Parents and individuals who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood shifts, or attention challenges often start by sharing what matters most to them.
Jackie listens, notices strengths, and helps people use those strengths to make small changes that add up. Her approach begins by looking at what has helped before.
Background and approach
She asks about strategies that worked in the past and brings them into the present. Jackie and a client then look at patterns that may be holding the person back and try new ways of thinking or acting. Jackie has supported people coping with trauma from childhood or recent events, and she has worked with those facing workplace stress or career setbacks.
She also helps people navigate addictions, relationship strains, family issues, and parenting challenges. Her work includes attention to grief, bipolar mood concerns, panic, and social anxiety. Therapeutic tools she uses include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, solution-focused steps, and trauma-focused care.
These methods are chosen to fit each person's needs and goals. Jackie emphasizes practical steps you can test between sessions. She practices in Wyoming and offers sessions in English.
If you prefer a therapist who works in a straightforward, supportive way and who focuses on building on your strengths, Jackie may be a good match.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and strengths. In sessions she listens closely, reflects back what she hears, and helps people identify resources they already have to face current problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and introduces small experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving. Trauma-focused therapy pays attention to past events that continue to affect daily life and uses careful, paced work to reduce their hold.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they decide whether to use CBT exercises, more emotionally-focused conversations, trauma work, or a mix of methods and then adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework, and steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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