Jacquella Forgey-Carpenter, LCSW

Jacquella Forgey-Carpenter is a licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut with three years of practice. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety while respecting each person's experience. Her style is direct and warm, and she encourages people to use their own strengths as a starting point.

She helps people sort through family conflict and parenting challenges with clear steps and realistic goals. Sessions often involve learning simple skills to handle anger and overwhelming feelings. Jacquella uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice patterns of thinking and try different behaviors.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness exercises are used to build awareness in the moment. Motivational interviewing helps people find what matters most when making changes.

Jacquella aims to make sessions feel collaborative. She listens first, then offers practical strategies a person can try between meetings. She checks in on progress and adjusts plans as needed so work in therapy matches real life.

People reach out to her for help with grief, relationship strain, recovery from trauma and abuse, and coping with major life changes. She also supports those working on attachment concerns, communication problems, guilt and shame, and building self-compassion.

How her approaches work in online sessions

Jacquella uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT breaks problems into manageable steps and gives clear tools to use between sessions.

She also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those DBT skills can be practiced during sessions and applied when emotions run high. Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels unsure about change; it focuses on drawing out personal reasons for moving forward, rather than pushing a plan on them.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Jacquella will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts methods over time based on what helps most and checks in regularly to make adjustments.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These formats aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.