Jacqueline Lizarazo, LCSW

Jacqueline Lizarazo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with five years of practice. She takes a direct and caring approach, listening first and offering straightforward feedback. Jacqueline emphasizes clients' strengths and helps them take concrete steps toward feeling better. She aims to support people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression.

Her style blends talk and practical tasks. Sessions often include reflection, goal-setting, and short homework to practice new skills between meetings. Jacqueline uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to notice patterns of thinking and dialectical strategies to regulate emotions.

Jacqueline has worked with a range of concerns beyond core mood and anxiety issues. Her additional focus areas include relationship and communication problems, substance concerns, body image and identity questions, chronic illness and pain, and struggles tied to abandonment, adoption, or foster care. She also addresses themes like guilt, shame, forgiveness, and life transitions such as divorce or end-of-life matters.

Her sessions aim to be active and collaborative. Jacqueline offers practical techniques alongside listening and empathy. She expects honesty and effort, and she gives feedback that can feel challenging but is intended to promote growth.

People who are ready to try concrete changes and want a therapist who will both support and push them may find her approach helpful. Jacqueline practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English.

How Jacqueline’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy puts your goals first and follows what matters most to you. The therapist listens closely and adapts sessions to your needs, helping you notice strengths and make practical changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits that reduce anxiety or depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first and will adjust based on progress and preference. That means you and the therapist check in about what is helping and what needs to change so sessions fit your goals.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life, such as scheduling a session on a lunch break or avoiding travel time. It also allows brief check-ins when problems come up between longer visits. Specific session formats and options should be confirmed before booking, so please verify current choices when you sign up. Online sessions are designed to bring practical strategies and emotional support into everyday routines.