About Jessica
Jessica Hodges is a licensed social worker with ten years of experience helping people facing stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support for those who feel overwhelmed or stuck. Jessica speaks plainly and makes space for honest conversation about what is weighing someone down.
Jessica focuses on practical ways to reduce day-to-day distress and improve relationships. She listens first, then works with each person to set small, realistic steps they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented with attention to emotions and behavior. Her background includes a range of clinical settings and work with people who face trauma, parenting strain, and identity-related stress. Jessica draws on approaches that help people understand patterns from early relationships and current routines that keep problems going.
Clients can expect techniques that help change unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. She also uses methods that strengthen emotional awareness and interpersonal connection. The aim is to make progress in ways that feel doable and relevant to daily life.
Jessica practices in Kansas and provides services in English. She supports people dealing with mood concerns, grief, addiction-related struggles, eating and sleep difficulties, and career or life transitions. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she works to make the process clear and manageable.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice how early relationships shape current reactions and connections, and it supports building more supported, dependable ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room - the therapist follows their lead, reflects understanding, and helps clarify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thoughts and beliefs and teaches practical skills to change thinking and behavior patterns that increase anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach usually involves collaboration. The therapist will talk through your goals and preferences, try approaches that match those aims, and adjust strategies as progress unfolds. This means trying techniques together and choosing what feels most useful for the problem at hand.
Online therapy offers options to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face work and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, skill coaching in the moment, or when typing helps someone organize thoughts. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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