About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker who brings ten years of experience to therapy. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, relationship or intimacy struggles, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and parenting or career transitions. Jacqueline practices from Michigan and holds LCSW and LMSW credentials.
Jacqueline aims for a warm and direct style in sessions. She listens without judgment and offers clear, practical steps. Conversations focus on what is happening now, what patterns repeat, and what small changes can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her approach blends body-aware work with talk therapy and practical skills training. Jacqueline uses somatic awareness to help people notice how stress shows up in the body. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at relationship patterns and client-centered methods to keep the client’s priorities central.
When trauma is present she may include EMDR techniques alongside cognitive-behavioral tools to address upsetting memories and unhelpful thoughts. Jacqueline teaches coping skills so people can manage symptoms while deeper work proceeds. Treatment plans are adapted to each person’s needs and goals.
Scheduling is based on her Michigan practice hours and licensure. Sessions can use different remote formats to fit busy lives. Jacqueline invites people who are ready to change to take a small first step and explore what therapy might look like for them.
How somatic and attachment approaches work online
Jacqueline combines somatic awareness with attachment-based and client-centered ideas to guide online work. Somatic work helps people notice bodily signs of stress and grounding techniques that reduce immediate overwhelm. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current closeness and conflict. Client-centered methods keep the person’s goals and experience at the center of each session.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Jacqueline collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will talk through options and adjust plans as progress is made so the work feels practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and energy levels. These formats make it easier to attend from home, manage caregiving or work demands, and use short check-ins when needed. The variety of options gives people flexibility while keeping the focus on steady, goal-oriented work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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