Audrey Jackson , LMSW

Audrey Jackson is a Michigan-based licensed social worker who brings a long history of practice across community and residential settings. She focuses clinically on anxiety and depression and helps people develop practical tools to sustain life goals and purpose. Audrey draws on experience working with elderly adults, foster care families, and adult men and women, and she has provided services in telehealth, community mental health, residential programs, job training, and elder home environments.

Her training is in clinical social work with an emphasis on health education related to anxiety and depression and improving health outcomes. She centers much of her work on cognitive behavioral approaches that explore the link between thoughts and choices, supporting clients to adjust thinking patterns that contribute to stress, anxiety, and low mood. Audrey also employs a strengths-based, client-centered stance that helps individuals identify their own goals and the skills or resources needed to reach them. Interventions she uses include anger management, psychotherapy that examines prior family or interpersonal dynamics, and trauma-sensitive counseling.

Audrey has also supported people facing housing and food insufficiency, acted as a liaison with local DHHS agencies, and provided counseling for people with severe mental impairment, panic disorder, substance use concerns, self-harm reduction needs, and social anxiety. She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Social Work in 1983 and began her social work career in 1985. Audrey holds an LMSW - a Licensed Master Social Worker - in Michigan and invites prospective clients to explore a path toward their goals.

Approaches and Online Care with Audrey

Audrey integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide her online work. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the client's own goals and strengths, offering a supportive environment where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps clarify values and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and reshaping unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and to improve daily coping strategies. She may also draw on dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotion regulation skills and distress tolerance are a priority for a client.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Audrey assesses needs, goals, and preferences with each person and tailors her mix of methods so clients learn practical skills and make progress at a comfortable pace.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make scheduling more flexible and reduce travel time. These formats allow therapy to fit around work, family, and other responsibilities while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional and access to skill-building between sessions.