About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Meredith is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and challenges tied to identity and life change. She focuses on clear, practical steps people can use between sessions.
Conversations tend to center on problem solving, learning new coping skills, and noticing patterns that keep problems stuck. She offers a calm, affirming space where people can talk through hard feelings and decide what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several well-regarded approaches, chosen to fit each person’s needs. That can mean learning tools to manage intense emotions, practicing new ways of communicating, or working through traumatic memories at a pace that feels manageable.
Jacqueline works with concerns across a wide range: mood disorders, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief and loss, intimacy and relationship issues, parenting stress, and identity-related struggles including LGBT concerns. She also addresses challenges like ADHD, sleep and eating problems, chronic illness, and caregiver strain. Sessions mix talk, skill-building, and guided exercises tailored to each person's goals.
Jacqueline explains techniques in plain language and helps clients try them out. People leave with concrete steps they can use in daily life. Her practice supports people who want a collaborative approach and straightforward tools.
Jacqueline uses her years of experience to match methods to what each person needs right now.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings. It helps people who feel stuck by shifting attention to meaningful action rather than fighting uncomfortable thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps people process and reduce the impact of distressing memories through structured sets of attention and reflection, often used for trauma and abuse.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and pace. She will discuss options, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it possible to keep momentum and access care from wherever someone is located in Florida.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English