Jacqueline Rafter , LCSW, LMSW

Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience supporting people through relationship pain, trauma, anxiety, and life transitions. She practices from Michigan and brings a direct but warm approach to sessions. Jacqueline uses clear, practical tools and helps people build skills they can use between meetings.

Her style is interactive and nonjudgmental. She talks frankly when needed and stays compassionate. Jacqueline focuses on helping people feel understood and on creating a plan that fits each person's situation.

Jacqueline works with a wide range of concerns including LGBT issues, relationship trouble, trauma and abuse, ADHD, anger, stress, and anxiety. She also helps with parenting struggles, career questions, intimacy-related issues, and coping with major life changes. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems.

She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing alongside attachment-based and client-centered ways of working. Jacqueline incorporates inner child healing exercises and practical skills training to reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and pace.

Jacqueline offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She can help people plan next steps and practice new skills between sessions. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How Jacqueline’s approaches work online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online conversation helps identify attachment needs and build new ways of relating to partners and self, useful for abandonment and intimacy issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns like anxiety and anger. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, involves guided processing of traumatic memories to reduce distress and can be adapted to video or phone sessions for trauma and abuse concerns.

Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their history, goals, and what feels most comfortable, then try approaches that match those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on how someone responds and what helps them make steady progress.

Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or work between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage follow-up practice, and stay connected when life gets busy.