About Jessica
Jessica Hartley is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or major life changes. Her manner is steady and compassionate, and she aims to help clients build practical skills they can use day to day.
Hartley draws on a mix of mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral strategies, and psychodynamic ideas to provide layered support.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning concrete coping tools, practicing new ways of thinking, and looking at patterns that started earlier in life. This blend is used to address things like panic attacks, substance issues, and the effects of past trauma. She also helps people facing career pressure, compassion fatigue, relationship struggles, and bipolar and mood challenges.
Work can include skill-building for emotion regulation, tools to reduce addictive behaviors, and talking through how past family dynamics influence present choices. The goal is gradual, steady change rather than quick fixes. People meet with Hartley for practical, structured help alongside reflective conversation.
She encourages small experiments between sessions so new habits can take hold. Over time clients often gain more confidence in handling setbacks and daily stressors. Hartley practices in Vermont and offers services in English.
She accepts international clients and has experience supporting those coping with sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and codependency issues.
How Jessica’s Approaches Work Online
Jessica uses a combination of mindfulness practice and cognitive-behavioral strategies in online sessions. Mindfulness work involves short exercises to help notice thoughts and body sensations, which can reduce reactivity to stress and panic. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.She also brings psychodynamic ideas into therapy, looking at recurring life patterns and family of origin issues. That work helps people understand how past experiences shape current reactions and relationship choices. Together the therapist and client decide which approaches to emphasize based on symptoms, goals, and personal style so therapy feels collaborative and tailored.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling prompts, or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular work on anxiety, trauma recovery, or addiction concerns into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
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