About Jessica
Jessica Drennen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and other intense life challenges. She focuses on the practical problems that make daily life harder. She talks plainly about difficult topics and centers what each person wants to change.
Jessica creates a steady space to talk through relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, parenting stress, and identity questions. She addresses trauma, substance use, eating and body image issues, and the emotional fallout from major life changes.
Background and approach
Conversations are led by the client’s priorities and paced to what feels manageable. Her approach draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to identify patterns and try new responses. She also uses dialectical behavior skills and mindfulness techniques to help people regulate strong emotions and cope in the moment.
Motivational interviewing is used when change feels daunting or ambivalent. Sessions tend to be direct and practical. Jessica helps people break big problems into clear, doable steps.
She will challenge unhelpful thinking and teach skills for mood and behavior change, while also listening to how lived experience shapes each person’s needs. Based in North Carolina, Jessica holds an LCSW and brings years of experience working across a wide range of concerns. Her intent is to partner with people who want clearer coping tools and steadier emotional footing.
How her approaches translate to online care
Jessica blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Client-centered work means conversations focus on what matters most to the person, while CBT gives clear tools to test thoughts and try different behaviors. These approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday struggles.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotions run high. DBT-based techniques teach grounding, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills that can reduce overwhelm and improve relationships. Together these methods give both short-term coping strategies and longer-term behavior change techniques, and she will help decide which fit a person’s goals. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions adapt over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full face-to-face conversations and skill practice, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is low, and messaging or chat work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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