Jacqueline Arcand, LCSW

Jacqueline Arcand is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and low self-esteem. She focuses on building motivation, confidence, and practical coping skills so people can manage daily challenges. Jacqueline approaches work with warmth and a clear plan so conversations feel useful from the start.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based techniques, and client-centered methods to look at how thoughts, relationships, and past events shape current struggles. Sessions usually involve talking through patterns, trying small behavior changes, and practicing ways to feel safer in relationships. For trauma work she may draw on EMDR and narrative techniques to help process painful memories.

Jacqueline emphasizes that each person knows their story best and brings strengths to therapy. She frames the counseling relationship as a place to ask practical questions: What is wrong? How did it get this way? What can I do about it? Her role is to guide and support people as they try different steps toward change.

With ten years of professional experience and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credential, she brings steady clinical experience and a focus on realistic goals. People can expect straightforward feedback, collaborative planning, and tools they can practice between sessions.

Jacqueline is based in Alaska and conducts sessions in English. She works with a wide range of concerns including grief, intimacy issues, bipolar disorder, family of origin struggles, codependency, and substance-related problems.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Jacqueline often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy when working with people online. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic habits. Attachment-Based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating and regulating emotions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline treats this as a collaborative process where goals, preferences, and life circumstances guide which methods are used. She will talk through options, try approaches, and adjust plans based on what feels most useful to the person she is working with.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and practicing skills, phone can be a good shorter option or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.