Jacqueline"Jacqui" Mancuso

Jacqueline "Jacqui" Mancuso is a PACFA counsellor with 14 years working in community settings across Australia. She has practised with people facing a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, and questions about life purpose. Jacqui also supports those coping with chronic illness, carer stress, trauma and abuse, and career doubts.

She keeps sessions flexible and responds to what each person is ready to address. That might mean talking through relationship patterns, working on self-esteem, or taking practical steps when life has shifted. Jacqui can include creative, art-based interventions when someone asks for them.

Jacqui draws on Existential Therapy and Internal Family Systems to understand how people make meaning and how internal parts relate. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to support people who want clearer values and small behavioural changes. The approach is conversational and focused on what matters in daily life.

In practice she listens for the lived meaning behind someone’s situation and tracks themes that recur in their experience. Sessions can include gentle exploration of emotions, practical problem solving, and checking how new choices feel. Jacqui aims to respect each person’s pace and boundaries.

Her background includes work in women’s health, sexual assault and domestic violence services, support for military service people, and help for students and carers. She does not take international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Jacqui commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems and Existential Therapy when working with people online. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and trying small behaviour changes that align with those values; it is useful for anxiety, depression and decisions about direction. Internal Family Systems helps a person notice different internal parts, how they protect or criticise, and how those parts might be invited to shift; this can help with longstanding patterns and self-relationship issues. Existential Therapy attends to questions of meaning, responsibility and choice, and supports people wrestling with life purpose, midlife questions or major change.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss what feels most relevant and practical, and may combine ideas from different approaches as needs and preferences become clearer. The aim is to choose ways of working that fit the person’s goals and pace.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, reduce travel, or use shorter check-ins when time is limited. It also means creative interventions can be adapted for a remote setting when someone wishes to include them. Appropriately qualified counsellors will discuss which format suits the session focus and daily circumstances.