About Jessica
Jessica Barnes is an LCSW who helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or changes in their relationships. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps a person can use between sessions. Her approach centers on building strengths and taking manageable steps toward feeling better.
With 14 years of clinical experience, Jessica has worked in clinics, home-based settings, crisis management, and telehealth. She draws on several methods to match what a person needs in the moment.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear coping strategies for anxiety, tools for managing mood swings, and focused work on communication or relationship patterns. Jessica commonly helps people with depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, and self-esteem concerns. She also works with issues tied to parenting, blended families, attachment and abandonment, and intimacy-related struggles.
Clients explore practical ways to manage anger, address ADHD challenges, and cope with big life transitions. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She emphasizes that each person knows their story best, and she offers guidance to identify strengths and plan achievable changes.
Therapy sessions are framed as a partnership where goals are set together. Jessica is licensed in Indiana and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She aims to help people regain a clearer sense of control, improve relationships, and develop routines that support emotional well-being.
How Jessica Uses Evidence-Informed Approaches Online
Jessica often relies on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy during online work. ACT focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts while committing to actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety and coping with life changes. CBT breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep disruption.She approaches therapy as a collaborative process. Together the client and therapist explore which method fits the person’s goals and preferences. That plan can change over time as needs shift, and sessions blend skill-building, emotion work, and practical problem solving.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and longer conversations help progress work. Phone sessions can be a good option if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for ongoing support and quick skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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