Jacquelyn “Jacqui” Lewis, LMFT, ATR-BC, CCTP, ACCTS

Jacqui is a compassionate, engaged, and caring Cognitive Behavioral therapist who is passionate about helping people resolve concerns which are getting in the way of living a fulfilled, balanced, and rewarding life. Jacqui has been conducting therapy sessions with individuals, couples, families, and groups, since 2008. She is a Board Certified Art Therapist, utilizing art therapy techniques with CBT theory, to help reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety, trauma, family/relationship problems, depression, and grief. Jacqui is also an Advanced Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, as well as, being certified in working with OCD through Exposure Response Prevention (ERP).

Jacqui has a wide range of experience working with teens, transitional aged youth, and adults. She has worked in a variety of settings; working with people who are looking for ways to cope, manage, and resolve psychological symptoms which prevent the individual from engaging-in and succeeding in their academic, career, social, and familial roles and relationships. She worked with the San Francisco Veterans Administration in promoting the use of visual arts and art making as a way to promote psychological healing. Jacqui also spent several years working in high school settings, where teens were struggling with daily stressors brought upon by academic pressures and peer/relationship issues.

She attended Notre Dame de Namur University, where she graduated with a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and completed the Graduate Art Therapy Program approved by the American Art Therapy Association. She also received the award for Outstanding Research in the field of Art Therapy Psychology for her research on how Art Therapy can be utilized to reduced symptoms of stress for U.S. Military Veterans.

In her free time, Jacqui enjoys spending time knitting, painting, hiking with her dog, and gardening.