Dr. Jacquelyn Mentor
Compassionate, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jacquelyn
Dr. Jacquelyn Mentor welcomes parents and caregivers who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure what to try next. She speaks plainly and listens with patience.
Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping families find clearer ways to cope and communicate during hard times. Dr. Mentor is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - based in Florida with 23 years of experience.
She earned a B.S. and M.S. in psychology and a Doctor of Education in Counseling Psychology.
Background and approach
Her work has included helping people navigate parenting challenges, grief, relationship strain, trauma, and stress related to caregiving and illness. In sessions she focuses on concrete skills and honest conversation. She uses techniques from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot patterns and try different responses.
Solution-focused methods are used to set small, manageable goals and track progress. Her background includes long-term work with families on issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, developmental and behavioral concerns, and conflict resolution. She also has experience supporting people through widowhood, divorce recovery, and serious health concerns, drawing on both clinical tools and life experience.
Dr. Mentor aims to create a respectful, calm space where parents can learn practical tools and resources. She emphasizes psychoeducation alongside supportive listening, helping caregivers develop skills that fit their daily life.
The tone of her work is warm, trustworthy, and down-to-earth.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist follows the parent's lead, offers empathy, and helps clarify what matters most so families feel understood and heard. This approach works well when someone needs a calm space to talk through hard moments.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. In short practical sessions clients learn to notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related parenting concerns.
Dr. Mentor uses solution-focused methods to set small, achievable goals. These brief goals are designed to create immediate, useful changes in daily routines and interactions. That makes therapy feel more manageable for busy parents.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together which methods fit your needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can shift as problems change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let parents fit sessions around childcare, work, and medical appointments. Remote sessions also make it easier to revisit tools and messages between meetings, so skills can be practiced in real life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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