About Jessica
Jessica Hanson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She brings ten years of experience to sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space to talk about what matters most. Her style is practical and down-to-earth.
She listens first, then helps people notice patterns and try small, manageable changes. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings and on building clearer ways to communicate with others.
Background and approach
Jessica uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and actions. Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas help people get steadier with strong emotions.
Attachment-informed work looks at how early relationships affect current connection and trust. She has particular experience supporting caregivers and people coping with chronic illness, dementia-related caregiving, and grief related to loss or pet surrender. That background informs practical strategies for managing overwhelm and making day-to-day life more workable.
Jessica works with people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, parenting stress, sleep problems, and mood concerns including depression and bipolar issues. Her approach aims to increase dignity and self-direction while offering concrete tools for coping. People meet with Jessica to talk, practice new skills, and set small goals that fit their lives.
She focuses on clear steps, steady support, and helping people move forward at their own pace.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of daily living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and teaches step-by-step practices to change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape trust and closeness, and it can help people repair ways of relating to others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try approaches that fit those needs. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, or when a shorter touchpoint is helpful. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, California
- Languages
- English
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