Jacqueline Lacy-Diggins, LPC

Jacqueline Lacy-Diggins is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 27 years of experience. She focuses on practical tools clients can use right away. Jacqueline helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse.

She uses a mix of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Solution-Focused ideas, and Trauma-Focused approaches to guide sessions. That means conversations center on current problems, patterns of thought and behavior, and small steps that can lead to change. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Jacqueline often helps people facing life transitions and questions about purpose. She supports those dealing with self-esteem struggles, relationship pain, and the emotional fallout of separation or infidelity. She also works with concerns such as addiction, eating and food-related issues, and feelings of emptiness.

Her background includes long experience addressing family of origin issues, communication problems, and challenges that come with aging and geriatric issues. She is familiar with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and the ways it can affect functioning in daily life. Jacqueline aims to break problems into manageable steps so progress feels possible.

Clients can expect straightforward conversation, practical coping strategies, and attention to both immediate needs and longer-term goals. Jacqueline sees therapy as a collaborative effort to understand what’s getting in the way and to build skills for moving forward.

How Jacqueline’s approaches translate to online care

Jacqueline commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and focuses on practical exercises to reduce anxiety and low mood. She also uses Client-Centered techniques that prioritize the client’s pace and perspective, offering empathetic listening and collaborative goal setting. These approaches help with stress, depression, trauma recovery, and building better daily routines.

Choosing the right approach is a team process. Jacqueline will discuss options with each person and adjust methods as goals and needs become clearer. Together the therapist and client decide whether to emphasize thought-focused exercises, solution-oriented steps, or trauma-focused work based on what feels most useful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework prompts, and maintaining momentum between scheduled sessions.