Jacqueline Forde , LPC

Jacqueline Forde is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) practicing in Texas with eight years of clinical experience helping people navigate life transitions and emotional challenges. She approaches therapy with warmth and humility, believing that mental strength includes the willingness to sit with difficult feelings while trusting that healing is possible. Jacqueline emphasizes a collaborative relationship in which the client is regarded as the expert on their own life and the therapist offers guidance without pressure or judgment.

Her work is holistic and integrative, drawing on evidence-informed methods to address issues such as stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship difficulties, grief, anger, trauma and abuse, depression, and compassion fatigue, as well as concerns related to LGBT identity, intimacy, parenting, career, and ADHD. Jacqueline also addresses body image, communication struggles, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic symptoms, and questions about life purpose. She tailors treatment to each person, whether someone seeks focused work on a single problem or deeper exploration of longstanding patterns.

In sessions, Jacqueline helps clients increase awareness of unconscious beliefs and patterns that limit growth, and she supports practical changes that align with personal values. Her style blends cognitive and humanistic ideas to help clients understand how past experiences affect present difficulties, and to transform wounds into opportunities for resilience and self-discovery.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Jacqueline uses approaches that help clients build psychological flexibility and understand relationship patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings - it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life-direction concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, making it effective for symptoms of depression, panic, obsessive thoughts, and many stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship experiences shape current bonds and emotional responses, supporting work on intimacy, relationship repair, and trauma-related attachment wounds.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Jacqueline works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds so clients feel guided rather than pushed.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different lifestyles and comfort levels. This range of options makes it easier to maintain consistency in care, access support from wherever the client is located in Texas, and choose the format that best supports therapeutic work with licensed professionals and therapists.