About Jessica
Dr. Jessica Curd is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life changes. She brings 19 years of experience to each session and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her work also covers ADHD, autism-related concerns, relationship struggles, parenting stress, self-esteem, depression, bipolar concerns, and career pressures. She favors a straightforward, collaborative style. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to talk through feelings and try new coping skills.
Background and approach
Dr. Curd aims to make therapy feel useful and understandable, not full of jargon. Her background includes long experience in counseling across a range of life challenges.
She emphasizes listening first, then helping people test different strategies to reduce anxious thoughts, manage strong emotions, or work through grief and trauma. In practical terms she draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are introduced when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Sessions can include problem-solving for everyday stress, skill practice for anxiety, and guided conversations about relationships or identity. Outside of work she spends time with family, dogs, and outdoor activities like running and hiking.
That down-to-earth perspective shapes a calm, steady approach in sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following each person’s priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and helps guide conversations so the client sets the pace and goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a sounding board and clear support for decision-making or emotional processing.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. In sessions clients learn practical tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety or improve mood. CBT is well suited to anxiety, stress, and everyday coping skills work.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and tolerating distress. The focus is on building emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and coping strategies that can be practiced between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That makes therapy a collaborative process where approaches are matched to needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and texting support brief updates, skill coaching, and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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