Jacqueline Laurenzi, M. Ed.

About Me Hi, I'm Jackie, and I'm glad you're here. I'm a Resident in Counseling specializing in couples therapy and perinatal mental health. I work virtually with clients across Virginia, supporting couples and individuals through some of life's most significant transitions: engagement, marriage, pregnancy, and early parenthood. I bring 15 years of experience as an educator into my clinical work, and as a partner and parent myself, I understand this terrain from the inside out. My Approach At the heart of my work is Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, helping couples slow down, understand the cycle they're caught in, and find their way back to each other underneath it. Major transitions have a way of quietly reshaping a relationship before you even realize it's happening. Nowhere is that more true than in the postpartum season, when two people are simultaneously becoming parents, redefining their identities, and trying to stay connected through exhaustion and change. That "me to we" shift is real, and it deserves real support. I draw on the Gottman Method and Internal Family Systems to complement that work, bringing in communication tools, repair strategies, and a gentle curiosity about the inner experiences each partner carries into the relationship. Sessions are virtual, flexible, and designed to fit the life you're actually living. Background and Experience My path to this work is personal. After more than a decade as an educator and school counselor, I became a mother and found myself caught off guard by the emotional weight of that transition. I was excited and also anxious, uncertain, and quietly grieving parts of my identity I hadn't expected to lose. That experience didn't just change me as a person. It changed the direction of my career. I returned to school, earned my M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and have since built a practice focused specifically on the relationship and emotional challenges that arise during the perinatal season and major relationship transitions. I am committed to ongoing training in couples therapy and perinatal mental health. My Beliefs I believe every relationship has real capacity for growth, even in the hardest seasons. I also believe that the transition into parenthood is one of the most significant and underloved inflection points a couple will ever face, and that having space to process it honestly can make all the difference. My goal is to offer that space: warm, grounded, and free of judgment, where you can say the things that feel too hard to say elsewhere and start to find your way forward together. Get in Touch If you're a couple or individual navigating engagement, marriage, pregnancy, or early parenthood and something feels off, I'd love to connect. Visit my website at www.jlaurenzicounseling.com to learn more or schedule a free consultation.