Jackie is a fully Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC). She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia University, St. Paul, and her Master of Arts in Counseling from Adler Graduate School.

Jackie's focus includes working with pre-teens, teens, and emerging adults experiencing trauma symptoms, at risk youth/behaviors, complex mental health symptoms, and working through hard developmental stages in life. She has primarily worked in school-based mental health in a variety of roles.

Jackie is passionate about assisting clients, families, and systems navigate the impacts of mental health. She strives to implement person-centered approaches in therapy that are trauma and culturally informed, strengths based, and unique to each client. She believes that meeting clients and families where they are, utilizing humor and creativity, providing unconditional positive regard, and maintaining a trauma-informed relational lens are key to enhancing the therapeutic process and growth.

Jackie has been trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).