Jackie Cowell, LMFT
Jackie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been working in the human service field for the past 9 years. She has worked with a variety of populations including runaway and homeless youth and their families, autism and neurodivergence, addiction, eating disorders, and couples, and families. Further, as a Minority Fellowship Program Master’s Fellow, she received specialized clinical training in working with minority youth and their families through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Jackie specializes in the intersection of neurodivergence, eating disorders, and chronic illness, and is particularly passionate about supporting gender-expansive folks. As a neurodivergent therapist, she practices from the valuable lens of lived experience. Jackie has experience working at varying levels of care in eating disorder treatment as well as providing supervision and consultation to providers from a Health At Every Size (HAES) approach. In line with her HAES approach, she is committed to dismantling systemic weight stigma at the macro and micro levels. Her work is trauma-informed and intersectional, recognizing the role oppression and ableism play in perpetuating shame, as well as in separating people from the wisdom of their bodies.
As a neurodiversity affirming clinician, Jackie works alongside clients to co-create safety through engagement in co-regulation, experiential exercises, self-advocacy, and special interests. Her approach includes an integration of experiential and evidence-based models (Emotion Focused, IFS, and DBT), as well as body-based approaches. She firmly believes that individuals hold capacity for change, and that changes can occur through new emotional experiences as well as the integration of mind and body.
Jackie considers herself a life-long learner. In her spare time, she enjoys being in nature, paddleboarding, researching topics for hours at a time, and watching her favorite show Survivor!