From Lancaster County, Jacqueline is a dedicated educator and student advocate with a dynamic career spanning from early childhood to higher education.   She is currently a counselor at Lancaster Country Day School, working to develop the SEL programming in the middle school division.  She brings creativity, curiosity, and humor into everything she does, working always to educate and improve experiences for everyone she serves.

Counseling Orientations
When interacting with students, Jacqueline pulls from a wide variety of counseling orientations that guides her language and her questions:

• Motivational Interviewing

• Solution-Focused

• Client/Person-Centered

• Systems Theory

Counseling Core Philosophy
I believe in a counseling approach grounded in intentionality, where every interaction reflects care and purpose.  Having a good sense of developmental stages is also important to the work I do.  I focus on students’ strengths while helping them navigate change with gentle accountability, and honesty.

My goal is to strike a healthy balance between affirming what’s good and supporting what needs to grow—because students engage most when they feel both safe and challenged.  I think often of counseling microskills and aim to get the little things right in order to build rapport with students and their families.

Also, I try to bring some humor into things because in this line of work, you have to!