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Contact Information

3008 Rosedale Ave.

Dallas, TX 75205

Qualifications

Licensed Clinical Social Worker #57185
Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor #12654

License #: 57185

License State: Texas

License Expiration: 10/31/2018

Links

Bluffview Counseling Services

Finances

50 minute sessions are $130.
Can file out of network with your insurance.

Jackie PonderVerified

Master Social Work-LMSW


I am a therapist and life coach who specializes in relationships, codependency, love addiction, trauma, mental health, depression, anxiety, addiction, self compassion and the enneagram. Do you ever feel like you don't know who you are? Where you want to go? Or what makes you happy? Together, we can find your way home to yourself.
 
Perhaps Dr. Brenè Brown said it best: “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” As a trained Brenè Brown Daring Way Facilitator, I understand that shame often blocks us from living the lives we are longing to lead. I can help you let go of powerlessness, anxiety, self doubt and the need for certainty. In place of these compulsive thoughts, I can help you cultivate gratitude, resilience, bliss and self compassion.
 
I am a Dallas native who graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelors degree in Interpersonal Communication. I knew my passion was to guide people through recovery so I pursued a Masters of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. I specialized in therapeutically counseling clients struggling though life transitions, relationships, anxiety, depression, and addiction. I am also a Certified Intrinsic Coach and am trained in Pia Melody Post Induction Therapy. Prior to entering private practice, I worked at Contact Crisis Line, Millwood Psychiatric Hospital, and The Greenhouse Treatment Center as a residential therapist.
 
I believe the relationship between therapist and client must feel safe, non-judgmental and empowering. I subscribe to multiple therapeutic modalities so that I can individualize therapy or coaching for each client. Therapy grants people the space to redefine meaning and make sense out of life. Though we consider ourselves to be thinking beings who have emotions, it is truly the other way around. We are feeling beings who have thoughts. Gone unchecked, those thoughts can create painful problems and harmful behaviors. When we ignore these patterns, we often compensate, hustle and act in ways that are outside our value systems.
 
Sharing your story and experiences fosters courage, hope and self acceptance. Nobody can or should have to go it alone.

Treatment Approach

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Eclectic

Family Systems Therapy

Humanistic

Interpersonal

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy

Relational Therapy

Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Treatment Modality

Family

Group

Individuals

Sex Gender

Bisexual Issues

Gay Issues

Lesbian Issues

Mental Health

Bipolar Disorder

Dissociative Disorders

Impulse Control Disorders

Mood Disorders

Personality Disorders

Thinking Disorders

Issues

Addiction

Alcohol Abuse

Anxiety or Fears

Borderline Personality

Chronic Impulsivity

Consulting

Coping skills

Depression

Domestic Abuse

Domestic Violence

Drug Abuse

Eating Disorders

Emotional Disturbance

Entitlement

Family Conflict

Internet Addiction

Life Coaching

Obesity

Obessive-Compulsive

Peer Relationships

Relationship issues

Self Esteem

Sexual Abuse

Spirituality

Substance Abuse

Trauma and PTSD