About Jessica
Jessica Bolin Edwards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She brings eight years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and parenting challenges. Her voice is warm and interactive, and she aims to treat each person with respect and compassion.
She has worked in residential programs, mobile crisis teams, outpatient clinics, and in-home settings. That range of experience exposed her to mild and more complex issues, including trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Jessica often helps people dealing with low self-esteem, family or relationship conflict, life changes, and complex trauma. Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral ideas. She also integrates mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and EMDR when those methods fit a person's needs.
Jessica prefers to set concrete, achievable goals together rather than hand someone a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions focus on practical steps people can take between meetings. She uses conversation to identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new responses, and build daily routines that reduce anxiety and improve mood.
She adapts pace and tools to what a person can realistically manage. Jessica emphasizes collaboration and nonjudgmental support. She helps people clarify priorities, try different strategies, and track small wins during transitions.
If someone is ready to try something different, she offers steady guidance and clear next steps.
How Jessica’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation. The therapist follows the person's lead, listens closely, and helps them clarify what matters most. This approach suits people who want support and a steady partner while they make changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors. It often uses short exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, stress, low mood, and coping with life changes.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation. It is an option when past events continue to cause strong emotional reactions or interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients take an active role in choosing techniques that fit their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging let people send brief updates, practice skills, or check in between sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into work, caregiving, or a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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