Jacquella Forgey-Carpenter, LCSW

Jacquella Forgey-Carpenter is a licensed clinical social worker, a CT LCSW, with three years of professional experience. She focuses on everyday pressures like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. Her work also includes family and parenting concerns, anger, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes.

She approaches sessions as a chance to use clients' existing strengths. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented. She listens to the facts of a situation and helps people break problems into manageable steps. Expect clear strategies and short-term skills you can try between meetings.

Jacquella uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practice, and motivational interviewing. These tools are applied to problems such as communication breakdowns, attachment issues, and post-traumatic stress. She also addresses shame, forgiveness, self-harm thoughts, and social anxiety with straightforward techniques.

Sessions tend to focus on relearning everyday routines and responses. That might mean changing unhelpful thoughts, building emotion regulation skills, or practicing new ways to talk with family members. Homework and simple exercises are common so progress continues outside the session.

Her practice is grounded in direct, practical work rather than long technical explanations. People who want clear steps, skill-building, and steady problem solving may find this approach fits their needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions