About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Porras helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She supports those struggling with self-esteem, panic, and the hard changes life brings. Jacqueline speaks English and Spanish and practices as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York.
Jacqueline uses a respectful and compassionate style in sessions. She tailors conversations to each person's needs and focuses on building practical coping skills. Her approach centers on listening carefully, offering clear feedback, and working with clients to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a calm, straightforward process. Jacqueline helps people break down overwhelming problems into manageable steps. She works on improving mood, reducing anxiety symptoms, and strengthening confidence.
She also addresses related concerns such as relationship and communication problems, feelings of emptiness or isolation, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and questions about life purpose. Jacqueline supports those navigating pregnancy and childbirth and a range of women’s issues. With three years of clinical experience, Jacqueline emphasizes collaboration.
She invites people to share what matters most and then shapes sessions around those priorities. The focus is on practical changes that fit each client’s life.
Approaches for online care and practical coping
Jacqueline uses evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building skills. One common approach helps people identify and shift thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and low mood; sessions teach ways to notice patterns and practice new responses that reduce panic and worry.Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people process distressing experiences at a pace that feels manageable. This work often includes grounding strategies, emotion regulation skills, and step-by-step planning for feeling safer and more stable.
Jacqueline treats finding the right method as a team effort. She will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist collaborate on a plan that fits personal needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or during a short break, and chat or text can be useful for quick check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to choose a format that feels most comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish