About Jessica
Jessica O'Connor-Rathbun is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and trauma and abuse. Her style is warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on helping people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She offers a calm space to talk through hard moments and to sort out what matters most. Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with attention to communication skills, boundaries, and handling strong emotions.
Background and approach
Jessica pays attention to attachment and patterns that repeat across relationships. Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients process painful memories and reduce overwhelming feelings. She addresses related struggles such as abandonment, codependency, guilt and shame, and family of origin issues.
The focus is on small, manageable steps that build emotional resilience over time. Jessica has three years of clinical experience as an LPC in Louisiana. She adapts sessions to each person’s situation and pace.
People who come to her often want clearer communication strategies, relief from persistent anxiety, or help rebuilding a sense of self after difficult experiences. Sessions may include talk therapy, skills practice, and short-term plans for coping with stressors between meetings. The aim is to leave each session with something useful to try before the next appointment.
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and teach new skills. One approach focuses on processing difficult memories and emotions so they feel less overwhelming; this can help people recovering from trauma or abuse. Another approach emphasizes building communication skills and healthier relationship patterns to address commitment issues, codependency, and family-of-origin problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adjust methods and pace so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat works well for quick check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting sessions into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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