About Jessica
Jessica Braddock is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Maine with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Jessica aims to meet each person where they are and offer practical steps forward.
She listens for the strengths someone already has and points out simple ways to use them. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth.
Background and approach
Jessica offers tools that people can try between visits and then talk about what worked and what didn’t. Her approach draws on a mix of methods, including cognitive behavior ideas and acceptance-based strategies to help manage worry and strong emotions. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior skills and narrative work to help people make sense of painful experiences.
These approaches are adapted to each person’s needs rather than used as fixed scripts. Jessica often helps people dealing with grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, and life changes. She also supports those coping with attachment concerns, social anxiety, and issues tied to gender or sexuality.
Her work includes helping people with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. People who choose her can expect a collaborative style. She asks questions, reflects what she hears, and suggests small experiments to try.
The goal is steady progress in everyday life, not quick fixes.
Approaches for online work and practical coping
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people live in line with their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it emphasizes small, value-driven actions rather than fighting every uncomfortable feeling.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors to change how they feel. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and social fears through clear, short exercises and homework practice.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills offer concrete techniques for regulating strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and sharpening interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are strained.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend approaches to try. That decision is made together and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for a full therapy session with visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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