About Jessica
Jessica Griggs is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She is based in Tennessee and meets people where they are with straightforward, compassionate care. Jessica focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions to feel steadier day to day.
Her work emphasizes listening first and then planning together. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals.
Background and approach
She adapts her approach to what helps someone make progress, whether that means learning new coping skills or processing difficult memories. Jessica uses several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-focused work. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and EMDR when appropriate.
These methods guide how she helps people manage anxiety, relationship strain, and symptoms that follow trauma. Many people come to her with compassion fatigue or ongoing stress from caregiving and demanding jobs. She offers tools to reduce overwhelm and rebuild energy.
Communication problems, commitment worries, and family-of-origin issues are also common topics in sessions. Her style is respectful and sensitive. She encourages clear goals, small experiments between sessions, and open conversations about what is or isn’t working.
Jessica aims to help people feel more connected to their values and more able to handle life’s pressures.
How Jessica Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them, which can be useful for anxiety and life-direction questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce worry and improve mood, useful for stress and depressive symptoms.Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships affect current connections and communication. It can help with relationship problems, abandonment worries, and family-of-origin issues by exploring expectations and building healthier ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to use and how to pace work like processing trauma or practicing new skills.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or chat can suit shorter check-ins or times when scheduling is tight. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving routines, or busy days while still practicing the therapeutic skills discussed in session.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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