About Jessica
Jessica Lemer is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Minnesota with 14 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with depression, and work through relationship and family concerns. Jessica aims to make the first step toward therapy feel approachable and doable.
Her style centers on listening first. She creates space for people to say what they are thinking and feeling without judgment.
Background and approach
That approach helps build trust and makes it easier to try new ways of handling difficult moments. Jessica draws on a mix of practical methods. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try behavioral changes.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how emotions influence close relationships and to improve communication. Mindfulness practices and client-centered ways of working are part of sessions when they fit a person’s needs. Jessica also uses motivational interviewing techniques to help people find the reasons they want to change and keep moving forward.
She has experience addressing trauma and abuse, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, and body image struggles. Jessica supports people dealing with codependency, commitment or communication problems, dissociation, and other complex concerns. Therapy with her is collaborative and paced to each person.
She encourages straightforward conversations about goals and adjusts methods to match what helps most in day-to-day life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. It involves open, nonjudgmental conversations that help people clarify goals and feel heard. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions use simple exercises and practical homework to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic health challenges.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions that shape their relationships. It supports clearer communication and builds more supported emotional connections, which can ease recurring conflicts and attachment concerns.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you go. That collaborative process helps identify what works best for symptom relief and daily functioning.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps reading cues and practicing communication. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when people prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, short problem-solving exchanges, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping a steady course of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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