Mary "Jackie" Downie
Compassionate, practical support for parents and individuals
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Wyoming, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary "Jackie" Downie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping parents and individuals manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She keeps the work straightforward and practical. Sessions aim to find what has helped before and use those strengths now.
Jackie draws on twenty years of experience in counseling to guide small, steady changes that can make daily life easier. She begins by listening to what already works in a person's life and builds from there.
Background and approach
That can mean naming habits, skills, or moments of calm people have overlooked. From that starting place she and the client look at patterns that may be keeping problems in place. Together they try new ways of thinking and acting that can break unhelpful cycles.
Jackie has supported people with anxiety, depression, attention challenges, and trauma from both earlier life stages and recent events. She also has experience helping parents of children at various ages and people struggling at work. Her background includes work with grief, addiction, relationship and family concerns, and mood disorders.
Her approach blends practical strategies and emotional understanding. That can mean using cognitive techniques to change unhelpful thoughts, focusing on emotions in relationships, or applying trauma-focused methods when needed. Jackie aims to tailor the work to each person’s needs and goals.
She practices from Wyoming and works in English. Jackie encourages a collaborative process that centers the client's priorities and strengths.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered work emphasizes hearing the person's story and following their lead to build confidence and direction. This approach helps when someone needs a space to feel understood and to reconnect with strengths they already have.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and day-to-day coping by teaching concrete skills to change thinking and behavior.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift emotional patterns in relationships. It can be helpful for parents and others who want to improve how they connect with loved ones.
Finding the right approach is part of the work with Jackie. She will discuss options and try methods that fit the client's goals, needs, and comfort level. The choice is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage care from home, and use different ways of communicating depending on what feels most helpful.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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