About Gessica
Gessica Yearwood is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related concerns. She uses warm, respectful care to support clients as they build confidence and better cope with daily stress. Her approach centers on listening first and shaping the work around each person’s needs.
Gessica draws on methods from client-centered therapy to keep sessions collaborative. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
These tools can be useful for worries, low mood, sleep trouble, and challenges with focus and concentration. Her background includes six years of work in mental health in Florida. She has experience supporting people through depression, anxiety, grief, and anger.
She also helps with parenting strain, relationship concerns, and issues that affect self-esteem and motivation. In sessions she aims to be practical and straightforward. Conversations often include goal-setting, small behavioral steps, and strategies to reduce stress and improve sleep.
She adjusts pacing and homework to match what each person can manage. People looking for help with phobias, social anxiety, forgiveness, or building self-love may find her methods helpful. She offers talk-based work alongside structured exercises for concentration and emotional regulation.
The focus is on steady progress and building skills that fit into everyday life.
How client-centered and CBT approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace. Online sessions using this approach begin with the counselor asking about priorities and following the client's lead to shape goals and next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. Online CBT often includes brief skill practice and homework between sessions to build new habits.The therapist will help determine which approach fits best by talking about your goals, routines, and what feels manageable. That decision is collaborative - together you decide whether more skills-based work, emotion-focused support, or a mix will be most useful. The plan can change over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief updates, skill reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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