Jacqueline Lizarazo, LCSW

Jacqueline Lizarazo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with five years of clinical experience. She centers care on the person in front of her and aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Jacqueline often encourages honest reflection and straightforward action to help clients move forward.

Her approach is direct and collaborative. She leans on client-centered ideas to listen and follow each person's priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for managing strong emotions.

Jackie values practical work between sessions and often assigns homework to build new skills. She can be persistent in sessions and may invite emotional reflection when it supports progress. At the same time she aims to stay nonjudgmental and supportive through difficult conversations.

Her focus also covers a range of related concerns, including abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, body image, chronic pain and illness, codependency, relationship and communication struggles, addiction, guilt and shame, and end-of-life related topics. She frames these as areas she commonly addresses in therapy.

Jacqueline practices in Illinois and offers services in English. She accepts international clients. To begin, people follow the platform's matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

How Jacqueline integrates proven approaches into online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's priorities. It helps people feel heard and makes it easier to set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, using grounding, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance techniques.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Jacqueline collaborates with each person to decide which tools fit their needs and goals. She adapts interventions over time, checking in about what is helping and what needs to change so the plan stays practical and relevant.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. The profile does not list session formats explicitly, so checking available formats will make scheduling clearer. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can attend from wherever they are located. Many people find that virtual sessions support steady progress when paired with the homework and skills work Jacqueline uses.