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Jacqueline "Jackie" Pattison

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Jacqueline "Jackie" Pattison

Kansas

Practical counseling for life changes and relationships

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  • Men's wellbeing focus
  • Practical coping tools
  • 17 years experience

About Jacqueline

Jacqueline "Jackie" Pattison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Kansas who focuses on men's wellbeing along with anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She helps people handle stress, anger, parenting strain, career transitions, and intimacy-related worries. Jackie aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people facing life changes.

Jackie begins by listening to each person's story. She believes people already hold many answers and that talking, processing, and learning simple tools can move them forward. Sessions are oriented toward coping strategies, clearer communication, and small, workable plans for change.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to relationship patterns, follows the person’s pace, and offers ways to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and parts of the Gottman Method inform how she helps with communication and emotional awareness.

People can expect a calm, direct style that focuses on practical next steps. Jackie describes counseling as a collaborative process where understanding and compassion meet everyday tools and planning. Her work also covers trauma, abuse, caregiving stress, codependency, and other related concerns.

With 17 years of experience, Jackie brings steady clinical time and a belief in realistic progress. She invites people to share their story, set goals, and try approaches that fit their life and values.

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on relationship patterns and how early bonds influence current reactions; online sessions let the therapist and client talk through those patterns and notice real-time responses. Client-centered therapy emphasizes being heard and understood; in remote sessions that means the therapist follows the client’s pace and reflections to help them find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers skills to test and change them, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed online.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Jackie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort. Together they will review what helps most and adjust strategies over time.

Confirm the specific session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand them. Many people find remote meetings help maintain consistency during life transitions and allow work on communication skills, thought patterns, and emotional regulation from wherever they are able to join.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsAnger managementDepression

Also works with

Trauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Gottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

17+ years

Credentials

Kansas

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What issues does Jackie commonly address?

She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is listening-first and practical. She blends client-centered conversations with strategies to change thoughts and behaviors and attention to relationship patterns.

What background and experience does she bring?

She has 17 years of clinical experience working with a range of life stressors and relational concerns and uses that experience to guide collaborative goal-setting.

What credential and location information is available?

She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, KS LCPC, based in Kansas.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English only.

Are international clients accepted?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What is the first step to begin working together?

To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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