Jackie Stlouis (He/Him)

My Approach to Helping

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with graduate training in counseling and a doctorate in public administration. My experience spans clinical practice, behavioral-health leadership, higher education, organizational consulting, and public systems. This helps me understand distress both personally and within the cultural, relational, workplace, and social systems shaping our lives. My approach is relational, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused. I help clients slow recurring patterns, identify what lies beneath their reactions, and translate insight into meaningful change. With couples, I support clearer communication, accountability, emotional safety, intimacy, healthy boundaries, and understanding of how personal histories and cultural identities enter the relationship. I offer thoughtful challenge alongside compassion; our work will be collaborative, purposeful, and connected to the goals that matter to you.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe healing begins when people feel genuinely seen rather than reduced to a diagnosis, stereotype, or problem. As a Black, Afro-Caribbean therapist and immigrant, I understand that mental health cannot be separated from culture, race, family, community, power, and our environments. My practice affirms identities, relationships, and ways of being. I care deeply about racial equity, social justice, men's mental health, immigrant experiences, and the effects of oppression and institutional systems on individual and relational wellbeing. Therapy should make room for accountability, complexity, humor, tenderness, and honest self-examination. I will not assume that I know your experience simply because we share an identity, nor ask you to leave important parts of yourself outside the room. I aim to create a grounded space where you can explore what shaped you, reclaim what feels authentic, and build relationships—with yourself and others—that are more intentional and reciprocal.