Jacqueline Oshiver, LMFT, LCSW

Jacqueline Oshiver is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in New Jersey with forty years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression, addiction, and codependency concerns. Sessions are conducted in English and shaped around practical steps clients can use in everyday life.

Her main approach is client-centered care that keeps the relationship between therapist and client equal. Jacqueline blends that with cognitive behavioral tools to change thought and behavior patterns. She also uses emotionally focused ideas when relationships or attachment wounds are central to the issue.

In sessions she uses mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to support decision making and build present-moment awareness. This can look like short in-session exercises, reflection on patterns, and small experiments to try between meetings. She draws on psychodynamic ideas when family of origin, abandonment, or attachment issues need deeper exploration.

Jacqueline has worked with people dealing with parenting stress, blended family issues, caregiver strain, intimacy and commitment concerns, and problems tied to substance use. She names aging and geriatric issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue among her focus areas. Her approach emphasizes practical coping skills alongside attention to emotional experience.

Clients can expect a collaborative process that aims to improve functioning at home, work, and relationships. The work often involves clarifying patterns, practicing boundary skills, and reducing overwhelm so daily life feels more manageable.

How Jacqueline’s approaches translate to online work