About Jessica
Jessica Hackett-Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and ADHD-related concerns. She draws on 13 years of counseling experience and a longer career in mental health settings to offer steady, practical support. Her style is straightforward and focused on real-life coping.
Sessions tend to center on clear skills and step-by-step strategies. She uses behavior-focused methods to observe patterns, try small changes, and track what helps.
Background and approach
Jessica blends assessment with hands-on techniques. She looks at how daily routines, communication, and caregiving responsibilities affect stress and mood. From there she helps people build manageable plans for change, whether that means adjusting habits, improving communication, or addressing trauma reactions.
She often works with clients who feel overwhelmed by caregiving duties, guilt, isolation, or shame. Jessica also supports those facing post-traumatic stress and the long work of grief and forgiveness. Her approach aims to reduce immediate distress while teaching tools people can use after therapy ends.
Sessions are offered in English and provided online using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Jessica practices in Pennsylvania and holds the LPC credential. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
Making evidence-based work online
Jessica uses evidence-based, behavior-focused techniques that look at what people do and how it affects their daily mood and stress. Behavior modification involves identifying patterns, setting small experiments, and reinforcing helpful changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and overwhelm. Functional behavior assessment examines why a behavior happens and guides targeted changes to improve functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which strategies fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is practical and what produces real change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy lives while using techniques that translate well to daily routines.
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- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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