About Jessica
Jessica Otton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with nine years of practice. She combines practical skills and down-to-earth guidance to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Jessica’s background in medical social work and hospice care shapes a compassionate, steady approach.
She earned both a Bachelor and Master of Social Work from Florida Gulf Coast University. Much of her work was in medical settings, including eight years at a local hospice across in-patient, home, and nursing home care.
Background and approach
She also has experience in substance abuse rehabilitation and has supported people in both voluntary and court-ordered treatment contexts. Jessica uses a strengths-based stance in sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.
She also uses solution-focused strategies to build small, achievable steps toward change. Her style is warm and team-oriented. She aims to create a trusting relationship where people feel comfortable speaking honestly.
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer thinking, and manageable goals that fit everyday life. Jessica also brings knowledge of attachment-based ideas and mindfulness strategies when they fit a person’s needs. She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and end-of-life issues.
Her experience in health and hospice settings informs her work with aging and geriatric concerns as well as chronic pain and illness.
How Jessica’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based ideas focus on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. In practice this means looking at patterns in close connections so people can make different, healthier choices. This approach can help with relationship strain, parenting stress, and issues tied to loss or caregiving.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions use concrete exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors techniques over time and checks in to make sure the plan feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let you have a conversation much like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are options for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typed communication feels more comfortable. These formats make it simpler to fit care into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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