About Jessica
Jessica Gardea is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and trauma. She works with adults who want clearer communication, better self-esteem, and practical ways to cope with overwhelming feelings. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused.
Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach skills people can use between meetings. Sessions often include learning breathing and grounding tools, practicing new ways to talk about needs, and trying small behavior changes that add up.
Background and approach
Jessica tailors the work to each person's situation. She listens for patterns that keep problems alive, such as harsh self-talk, avoidance, or repeating old family roles. Then she helps clients test new habits and notice what changes in daily life.
Her practice pays special attention to issues like attachment and abandonment wounds, adoption and foster care concerns, body image, immigration stress, and work-related strains for first responders. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, impulsivity, and the fallout from divorce or separation. Jessica has three years of clinical experience as an LPC in Texas.
She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session that works with the client's availability.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Jessica draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use day to day. One common approach she uses teaches grounding, breathing, and behavioral tools to reduce anxiety symptoms and help people stay present during stressful moments. Another focuses on communication skills and role practice to improve how people express needs and manage conflict in relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica meets each person where they are, discusses goals and preferences, and adapts methods so the work feels useful and manageable rather than overwhelming. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video allows fuller interaction for skills practice, phone calls can be easier when video is not possible, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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