About Jacqueline
Jacqueline McGowan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing from New Jersey. She brings a practical, person-focused style to sessions and aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She also offers support around relationship and intimacy questions, LGBTQ concerns, parenting strain, and issues like jealousy or obsessive thoughts.
Jacqueline uses a mix of approaches that include somatic work, client-centered methods, and evidence-informed therapies like CBT and DBT.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's needs, with attention to both feelings and body-based responses. She encourages people to set clear goals and to notice small changes that add up over time. Her background includes three years as a licensed clinician, combined with prior experience in social work settings.
Jacqueline emphasizes straightforward steps that people can use between sessions. She tends to focus on building coping skills, emotion regulation, and practical strategies for daily life. People who reach out can expect a calm, attentive presence and conversations that move at a steady, realistic pace.
Jacqueline helps people talk through hard moments and develop ways to handle future stressors. The work is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for each person. She offers sessions in English and provides several online formats to suit different needs.
Scheduling begins by completing a brief matching questionnaire and then arranging appointments that fit the client's routine.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Somatic Therapy focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion and uses gentle awareness of sensations to reduce tension and improve regulation. It can help when feelings show up as physical symptoms like tightness, panic, or exhaustion.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's own goals and perspective, with the therapist offering a warm, nonjudgmental presence. This approach supports people who want a space to be heard and then make choices that fit their lives.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts, and practical coping skills.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or busy days and let people continue work between sessions with messages and chat when needed. Many clients find this variety helps them practice new skills in real life while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English