About Jessica
Jessica Leising is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who supports people coping with stress and anxiety. She also helps with relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and symptoms of depression. Jessica speaks directly and calmly, and she aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable.
Jessica brings five years of clinical experience to her work. She treats each person as the expert of their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first, then helps untangle patterns that keep problems repeating. Her focus is practical problem solving alongside emotional processing. People often come to Jessica when they feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward after painful events.
She offers guidance on managing strong emotions, reducing anxious thinking, and improving communication in relationships. She also addresses complicated issues like attachment wounds, codependency, and caregiver stress. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Jessica helps clients set small goals and work toward them step by step. She emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to cope with day-to-day challenges. Getting started involves a simple matching process and scheduling.
Jessica aims to make sessions straightforward so people can focus on change rather than logistics.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on helping people manage anxiety, process traumatic experiences, and improve relationships. One common approach centers on skills for managing anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging strategies that reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and abuse by helping people make sense of painful memories, reduce their emotional charge, and build safer patterns in relationships. These methods are practical and aimed at producing change people can notice in their day-to-day lives.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jessica collaborates with each person to identify what feels most useful based on their goals, current challenges, and personal preferences. She checks in often and adjusts methods as needed so the plan stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible options to fit busy lives. Video calls work well for deeper conversational sessions, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide short check-ins or support between longer sessions. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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