About Jacquelyn
Dr. Jacquelyn Mentor helps people facing hard life moments find steady ground. She welcomes conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, trauma, addiction, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar concerns.
Her style is calm and straightforward, and she aims to listen without judgment. Dr. Mentor earned a Doctor of Education in Counseling Psychology and holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, LMHC.
She brings over two decades of experience working with issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, widowhood, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
Her background also includes supporting people with workplace conflicts, aging concerns, and complex trauma histories. In sessions she uses practical, evidence-informed approaches. She often draws on client-centered methods to follow a person’s lead and on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, achievable goals and build on existing strengths. She emphasizes clear communication and some practical tools and resources that clients can use between meetings. The tone of her work is empathetic and respectful, with attention to real-world steps that make daily life easier.
Dr. Mentor describes the therapeutic relationship as friendly, calm, and professional. People who want a thoughtful, experienced counselor in Florida can expect a steady, experienced presence in sessions.
Dr. Mentor combines long experience with straightforward methods to help people navigate grief, relationship strain, trauma recovery, and life transitions.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s priorities. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story, and sessions move at the client’s pace to address what matters most right now.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday difficulties by breaking concerns into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss different methods and tailor sessions to the client’s goals, preferences, and current concerns rather than starting with a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well if bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, live chat suits shorter exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing contact between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days when getting out is difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English