Jacqueline Clausius -Guthreau, LMFT

Jacqueline Clausius -Guthreau is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Wisconsin with 16 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and career-related pressures. She aims to create a space where clients can regain clarity and build stronger day-to-day coping skills.

Her approach centers on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with mindfulness and narrative methods. She uses these approaches to help people notice patterns, shift unhelpful thoughts, and practice new responses to old problems. Sessions emphasize clear tools and small changes that add up over time.

Jacqueline has supported people facing life transitions and long-term health challenges, including chronic pain, illness, and disability. She also addresses caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, and complications that arise in blended families. Her work includes helping those dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, and codependency.

In addition to clinical concerns, Jacqueline helps clients with relationship and communication problems, parenting stress, commitment and control issues, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. She draws on motivational interviewing when people want to change habits and narrative therapy to reframe life stories.

Jacqueline emphasizes collaboration in therapy. She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress. Sessions are conducted in English and she practices in Wisconsin as an LMFT.

How Jacqueline’s approaches fit online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and pacing sessions around those priorities. Online work can use this approach to help clients set clear, manageable steps for daily life and track progress between meetings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions this often means practicing specific skills together, reviewing homework, and testing new ways of responding to stress and anxiety.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve moment-to-moment coping. These exercises can be guided in a session and practiced independently throughout the week.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and together they'll choose which methods to try. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked so therapy stays relevant.

Confirm the available session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make scheduling easier, fit into work breaks, reduce travel time, and allow therapy to continue during health challenges or caregiving demands. It also supports shorter check-ins when a brief focused conversation is most useful.