Jacqueline Witsberger, LPCC

Jacqueline Witsberger is an Ohio licensed counselor with 34 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, mood difficulties such as bipolar and depression, addictions, and challenges with self-esteem and motivation. Jacqueline aims to make the initial step toward change feel safer and more manageable for anyone who is worried about starting therapy.

She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people notice patterns, try new skills, and change unhelpful habits. Attachment-based ideas shape how she thinks about relationships and how early connections affect current worries. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in to support focus, coping, and readiness to try different approaches.

Jacqueline describes therapy as a collaborative process. She works with each person to build a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. Sessions often include skill practice, goal setting, and step-by-step plans for applying what is learned between meetings.

Her background spans many clinical areas including grief, parenting concerns, career shifts, chronic illness and caregiver stress, ADHD, and relationship and communication problems. Jacqueline draws on long experience to tailor strategies to each person’s needs and daily life.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior; online sessions using this lens help people notice patterns in their connections and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors; online CBT often uses short exercises, between-session worksheets, and clear homework to change daily routines. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, and those skills can be practiced and reviewed in remote sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try methods together to see what fits best. That collaborative process helps tailor the pace and focus of therapy to each person’s needs.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the biography. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy days, allow brief check-ins when time is limited, reduce travel time, and let people use written tools and worksheets between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and skills practice to remote sessions so progress continues even with a hectic schedule.