Jacqueline Childress

Jacqueline Childress is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate major life shifts and heal after difficult experiences. Her approach is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping clients build confidence and steady progress.

She treats trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. Jacqueline also helps people facing stress, grief, parenting challenges, career uncertainty, and questions about life purpose. Her work includes attention to ADHD, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue, along with issues tied to adoption, attachment, and multicultural stressors.

Jacqueline believes clients know their stories best and brings a strengths-focused perspective to sessions. She helps people notice resources they already have and grow new skills for coping and decision-making. Conversations are practical, with steps and tools tailored to each person’s situation.

Over two decades, she has supported people through recovery from sexual assault, struggles with eating and sexual functioning, and the emotional fallout of prejudice and discrimination. She also works with those wrestling with jealousy, impulsivity, and personality concerns, always aiming to clarify goals and priorities.

Her counseling style is empowering and collaborative. She encourages courage and steady effort, and she offers coaching-style support when people want to set clear goals and make change.

To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy process to match and schedule a session based on therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Jacqueline uses evidence-based techniques to help people cope and make concrete changes. One common focus is trauma-informed care, which centers safety, pacing, and helping people reduce the ways past harm affects daily life. This approach is often applied to trauma recovery, sexual assault, and patterns that stem from earlier attachment wounds.

She also emphasizes strengths-based and goal-focused methods that combine practical skill-building with coaching. That means sessions often include problem-solving, practice assignments, and clear steps to improve confidence, manage mood, or address relationship patterns. These methods can help with anxiety, depression, career decisions, and coping with life changes.

Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will work collaboratively to learn what matters most, try methods that fit the person’s situation, and adjust strategies based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so care stays aligned with their needs and goals.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm available session types before scheduling. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel, offering shorter check-ins when needed, and allowing sessions during breaks or between commitments. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, talk through relationship or parenting dilemmas, and support steady progress even when meeting remotely.