Jacqueline Rafter, LCSW, LMSW
Licensed in Michigan · 10 years in practice
Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people navigate trauma, relationship struggles, anxiety, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LMSW, Michigan
- 6801106200 · expires December 2026
- LCSW, Indiana
- 34009470A · expires April 2026
- LCSW, California
- LCSW118581 · expires October 2027
- NPI
- 1770948127 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Rafter is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people navigate trauma, relationship struggles, anxiety, and major life changes. She holds an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and an LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker) and practices from Michigan. Her style is warm, direct, and non-judgmental.
She often works with people coping with past physical, emotional, or sexual abuse and those facing challenges like low self-esteem, people-pleasing, ADHD, and anger.
Background and approach
Jacqueline also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. She addresses intimacy-related concerns and relationship patterns that trace back to family of origin or attachment wounds. Jacqueline blends practical skill teaching with reflective work.
She uses EMDR techniques and cognitive behavioral strategies alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches. Sessions focus on short-term coping tools while also opening space to heal underlying patterns. Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s needs.
Her approach invites honest conversation and active problem solving. She names patterns, teaches communication and emotion-regulation skills, and helps clients practice change between sessions. Jacqueline aims to empower people to make concrete shifts that fit their daily lives.
Appointments are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Scheduling follows local licensing rules and time zone constraints, so clients in other states should check times carefully. Jacqueline encourages people ready to take a next step to begin the matching and scheduling process.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Jacqueline lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jacqueline names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use gentle conversation to identify attachment wounds and build new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. In remote sessions, CBT methods include goal setting, thought records, and behavioral tasks to practice between meetings. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then shape an approach together. That may mean combining attachment-focused conversation with CBT skills and EMDR techniques when appropriate. Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates and get coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and busy days while keeping progress moving forward.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What issues does she help with?
She helps people facing trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, anxiety, anger, ADHD, parenting stress, career transitions, and related concerns.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is warm, interactive, direct, and non-judgmental. Sessions combine practical skill teaching with reflective conversation.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience working with a broad range of concerns, including trauma, mood symptoms, and relationship patterns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LCSW and LMSW credentials and practices from Michigan, with licensure noted for CA LCSW and MI LMSW.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's listed availability.
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