About Jaeron-Rae
Jaeron-Rae Dukes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy. They also support people dealing with addiction, grief, parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, and work or career concerns. Jaeron-Rae is non-binary and offers a welcoming approach for LGBTQ clients, including transgender people.
Jaeron-Rae keeps sessions warm and interactive. They use a person-centered stance that treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
The therapist listens first, then offers tools and ideas that match what the person wants to work on. The practice draws on somatic ideas alongside attachment-focused work and cognitive strategies. That means attention to bodily experience, relationship patterns, and practical thought-and-behavior steps.
Jaeron-Rae also integrates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help with emotion regulation. Sessions are tailored to the problem at hand. For someone dealing with trauma, the focus may be grounding and body-based regulation.
For anxiety or work stress, the work may include thought patterns and coping skills. For relationship pain, the focus often turns to patterns of connection and communication. Jaeron-Rae brings three years of counseling experience in South Dakota and holds the SD LPC 20624 credential.
They offer sessions in English and provide video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, someone completes a short questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs.
How somatic, attachment, and client-centered work translate online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body responds to stress and emotion. Online sessions can include guided breathing, grounding exercises, and attention to bodily signals to help manage anxiety, trauma reactions, and regulation needs. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past and present relationship patterns shape feelings and closeness. Online conversations explore those patterns and practice different ways of relating to decrease reactivity and strengthen connection. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and goals. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what is said, and helps people identify their own next steps for change.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that fit the person's goals, comfort, and pace. Together they may try body-based tools one week and CBT-style coping skills the next, adjusting based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, practice skills between meetings, and connect from wherever a person is in South Dakota. The variety of formats also allows the therapist and client to pick what feels most helpful for the issue at hand.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English