Jacqueline "Jackie" Pattison, LCPC
Supporting steady progress through life changes
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About Jacqueline
Jacqueline "Jackie" Pattison is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Kansas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, grief, and major life changes. She emphasizes listening to each person’s story and partnering to find practical steps forward. Jackie offers a calm, straightforward presence and focuses on concrete tools as well as understanding feelings.
Jackie believes answers live inside each person, and therapy is a place to find them. She uses gentle guidance, education, and coping strategies to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer goals. Sessions often include planning and skills clients can use between meetings.
Her approach makes space for loss, heartbreak, and transitions. Jackie works with issues like parenting strain, intimacy-related concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges that follow trauma and abuse. She also addresses attachment and abandonment worries and practical problems such as communication and boundaries.
Jackie draws on several methods to fit each person’s needs. She blends client-focused listening with techniques that challenge unhelpful thinking and methods that strengthen emotional connection. Mindfulness skills are used to help people stay present during hard moments.
With 17 years of experience, Jackie aims to create a collaborative and respectful space. She helps clients build plans they can try between sessions and adjusts work as life changes. People who want straightforward support for midlife transitions and other stresses may find this approach useful.
Jackie believes answers live inside each person, and therapy is a place to find them. She uses gentle guidance, education, and coping strategies to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer goals. Sessions often include planning and skills clients can use between meetings.
Her approach makes space for loss, heartbreak, and transitions. Jackie works with issues like parenting strain, intimacy-related concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges that follow trauma and abuse. She also addresses attachment and abandonment worries and practical problems such as communication and boundaries.
Jackie draws on several methods to fit each person’s needs. She blends client-focused listening with techniques that challenge unhelpful thinking and methods that strengthen emotional connection. Mindfulness skills are used to help people stay present during hard moments.
With 17 years of experience, Jackie aims to create a collaborative and respectful space. She helps clients build plans they can try between sessions and adjusts work as life changes. People who want straightforward support for midlife transitions and other stresses may find this approach useful.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
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
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships influence current feelings and patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust, and hurt in relationships and is useful for intimacy and abandonment concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety, depression, and stress reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and daily life. That plan can change as needs evolve, with regular check-ins about what is and isn’t helping.
Confirm the current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full hour feels too long. It can also be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited, or when a quick, focused session is needed during a work break. Licensed professionals can adapt methods like CBT and attachment work to succeed in an online setting, and the therapist will discuss practical arrangements when scheduling.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Focus areas include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy challenges, parenting, career concerns, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and direct. She listens closely, offers education, and helps create practical coping strategies and plans.
What is her professional background?
She has 17 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life transition issues.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Kansas LCPC and practices in Kansas.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
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 steps are needed to begin working with her?
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