About Jessica
Jessica Benash is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her approach is warm and interactive and she focuses on building a working relationship that makes change easier.
Jessica has practiced in residential treatment, day treatment, and outpatient settings. She also teaches as an adjunct professor in a social work department. Those roles shaped how she listens and how she helps people make practical changes in their daily lives.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends client-centered work with solution-focused techniques. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. She pays attention to strengths and small steps that can be used right away.
Jessica has supported people facing trauma and abuse, survivors of suicide loss, caregivers handling chronic pain and illness, and clients living with ADHD. She also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, grief, anger, career concerns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She aims to meet clients where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable.
Her style is respectful, sensitive, and compassionate. Jessica invites people to bring their real-world problems and work together toward achievable goals.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Jessica blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make clear changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and building a strong working relationship so clients can talk through what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thinking patterns and offers concrete strategies to reduce anxiety and manage mood.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people stay present and reduce stress. Mindfulness teaches simple practices for noticing thoughts and sensations without getting swept away, which can be useful for anxiety and coping with life changes. Together these approaches are used flexibly so the work matches the person's goals and situation.
Finding the right mix is part of the first sessions. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods to try, adjust steps as needed, and focus on practical tools the client can use between meetings.
Online therapy gives flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for longer conversations and skill work, phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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