Jacqueline Rivers

Jacqueline Rivers serves as a knowledgeable guide for people seeking growth and healing, helping them explore the changes they want to make and offering tools, perspective, and insight to reach their goals.

She uses a client-centered, systems-perspective approach informed by systems theory, attachment theory, and principles from neurobiology. Her work is aimed at supporting individuals, couples, and families as they manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship struggles, and other life transitions.

Jacqueline is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in New Mexico; this qualification reflects specialized training to work with couples, families, and individuals and is held under the state license CMF0180001. She earned a Master of Science in Family and Child Science with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from New Mexico State University and a Bachelor of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University.

With 10 years of clinical experience, Jacqueline has most often supported people facing anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship conflict across romantic and family relationships and peer connections, and challenges related to cancer. She has additional training in attachment, self-harm intervention, suicide prevention, neurobiology, and trauma, and she is EMDR-trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Her practice integrates clinical training and practical strategies to help clients build coping skills, strengthen relationships, and move toward greater well-being while honoring each person’s strengths and goals. Jacqueline practices in New Mexico and works with people seeking both short-term support and longer-term therapeutic work.