About Jessica
Jessica Messersmith-Miller is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) practicing in Ohio. She brings 16 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and relationship problems. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps that fit each person's life.
Jessica uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each client. She listens first, then suggests tools drawn from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. Sessions often include skill practice, small experiments, and a focus on everyday changes that add up.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient counseling, hospitals, hospice, jails, and alternative education settings. That variety shaped her ability to adapt plans to different circumstances and needs. Jessica has led individual therapy, couples work, family sessions, and groups.
She helps people who are coping with addiction, dual diagnosis, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and career or parenting strain. Her practice pays attention to how family history and current relationships affect daily life.
Jessica aims to collaborate on clear, achievable goals. She uses motivational interviewing and narrative techniques alongside solution-focused ideas to keep work practical. People can connect by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit their schedules.
Approach-driven care online with flexible session options
Jessica commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve coping during difficult moments.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which emphasizes a respectful, listening stance and supports people in finding their own solutions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist and client will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made as progress and comfort level become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase convenience. Video is useful for full sessions and skill demonstrations, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates or questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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