About Jolene
Dr. Jolene Des Roches is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and LGBTQ+ concerns. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a down-to-earth, compassionate presence to sessions.
Dr. Des Roches aims to help clients feel seen and to make steady, practical progress toward clearer goals. Her approach is trauma-informed and person-centered, which means she listens carefully and centers each person's values.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy, to help people manage symptoms and build new habits. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is also part of her toolkit for working through traumatic memories.
In sessions she focuses on concrete skills such as communication strategies, coping plans for panic or anxiety, and steps to improve sleep or eating patterns. She also helps people think through career stress, grief, and issues around self-esteem or intimacy. Conversations aim to be practical and relatable, not full of jargon.
Dr. Des Roches has worked with concerns connected to adoption and foster care, attachment, neurodiversity, blended family challenges, and chronic illness. She also supports people dealing with complex topics like dissociation, BDSM and kink culture, and commitment questions.
That breadth informs her flexible, individualized care. She practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English. People who want to begin can use the site Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
How approaches like CBT, DBT, and EMDR help online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's goals and preferences and focuses on listening and collaboration. It helps people clarify what matters to them and set practical next steps for daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns over time.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can be useful when feelings are intense or relationships are strained.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help choose methods that match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where plans can change as progress is made.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Because the original profile does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking so you know whether sessions are by video, phone, or another arrangement. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to remote sessions so you can practice skills and work through difficult memories from wherever you join.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English