Jacqueline Nates is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice built on an all-encompassing approach — one thoroughly committed to helping people live the life they’ve always wanted. What sets Jacqueline’s approach apart is that alongside traditional psychotherapy, she specializes in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), helping clients heal from chronic pain conditions rooted in neuroplastic pain (also known as Tension Myositis Syndrome, or (TMS). She isn’t just a therapist who treats neuroplastic pain — she’s lived it, through a long personal journey fighting debilitating pain.

She underwent two major spine surgeries yet was still struggling with chronic pain. At the time, she believed her pain was solely linked to the structural problems doctors had identified in her spine. She lived in pain for years until she discovered the work of Dr. John Sarno, whose theories laid the foundation for our modern understanding of neuroplastic pain. Applying his approach through consistent effort, Jacqueline found lasting relief and is now living pain free. Wanting to deepen her own understanding and offer her clients an even more structured path to healing, she went on to pursue advanced training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), the evidence-based approach validated in clinical research for retraining the brain’s pain response. Her passion is to pass this knowledge along to others who may have given up hope and are living in chronic pain — through this work, you too can find your way out of pain, and she is living proof of that.

Jacqueline worked for 7 years at the prestigious UCLA Ronald Reagan outpatient clinic as a staff psychotherapist, treating UCLA university students with a specialization in both psychodynamic theory and the Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) program. This experience gave her the skills to work with a diverse population. Her clinical expertise spans anxiety, OCD, borderline personality disorder, depression, eating disorders, LGBTQ+ issues, self-harming behaviors, substance abuse, and trauma. She continues to treat clients using these psychotherapy methods and has trained extensively in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and in the Sarno x Sachs Solution to help clients understand and resolve chronic pain. She also works with couples, helping them strengthen communication and navigate relational challenges.  Across all of this work, she draws on the same depth of clinical grounding that has defined her career from the start.

Jacqueline holds a master’s in clinical psychology from Antioch University. She completed a year-long certificate program in the treatment of eating disorders at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, and earned her bachelor’s in communication from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.