Jacqueline Lacy-Diggins

Jacqueline Lacy-Diggins is an Arkansas licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 27 years of clinical experience. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and people coping with life changes, including concerns about life purpose.

She focuses on practical conversations that help people sort through what feels stuck. Sessions often involve clear, down-to-earth discussion about current problems and small steps to try between meetings. She also uses approaches that look at thoughts and behaviors and how those affect mood and choices.

Jacqueline has worked with people at different life stages, including those facing midlife shifts and adults handling difficult family history or relationship strain. She helps clients address eating and substance issues, grief over separation or divorce, and the long-term effects of domestic violence or childhood trauma.

Her style blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused strategies. That means she listens to the person’s experience first and then suggests exercises or thought experiments that can change everyday reactions. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events are a significant part of what keeps someone feeling stuck.

People who come to her often want to reduce intense worry, feel less empty, or reconnect with what gives their life meaning. She guides practical coping skills, communication practice, and ways to rebuild self-respect after guilt or shame. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site’s process for matching and scheduling a first session.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting. Online sessions can recreate that by leaving room for the person to describe what matters most and for the counselor to respond with focused questions and summaries that clarify next steps.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions influence mood. In remote sessions this often means practicing thought records, behavioral experiments, and problem-solving exercises together, then reviewing how those experiments went between meetings.

Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, practical changes. Online work can be used to set brief goals, test specific strategies, and check progress quickly so people can see what helps in day-to-day life.

Deciding which approach or mix of methods to use is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and together they will choose ways of working that fit the situation.

Session formats are not spelled out in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. Online counseling can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time, which helps people keep therapy consistent while juggling work and family demands.