Jaeron-Rae Dukes, LPC

Jaeron-Rae Dukes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Dakota who helps people navigate relationship struggles, jealousy, trauma, anxiety, depression, and challenges tied to identity. Jaeron-Rae often supports LGBT clients and people coping with grief, addiction, parenting strain, or career stress. They describe their approach as warm and person-centered and aim to make therapy feel collaborative and practical.

Jaeron-Rae uses straightforward, interactive sessions that focus on the person in front of them. They view clients as the expert on their own lives and offer guidance, tools, and resources to help people build coping skills and make concrete changes. Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs and goals.

Their background includes work with a broad range of concerns such as depression, dissociation, psychosis, eating issues, and incarceration-related challenges. Jaeron-Rae also has a specific interest in supporting transgender clients and LGBT people more broadly. Their clinical toolkit draws from attachment-focused work and cognitive-behavioral strategies among other approaches.

In practice Jaeron-Rae may blend methods like dialectical behavior techniques, attachment-based ideas, and narrative or solution-focused strategies to address patterns that keep people stuck. They focus on helping people improve communication, manage strong emotions, and rebuild trust in themselves and relationships.

Clients who reach out can expect a supportive, nonjudgmental stance and practical next steps to try between sessions. Jaeron-Rae emphasizes steady progress and adapting the work as needs and circumstances change.

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy centers on patterns formed in close relationships and helps people notice how those patterns affect current connections and trust. It can be useful for intimacy-related issues, codependency, and commitment concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking since they are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use strategies learned in session right away in everyday settings. Licensed professionals can adapt attachment and CBT techniques to a remote setting so clients can practice new skills between meetings.