About Jessica
Jessica Peres is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. She has nine years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Jessica speaks English and Portuguese and aims to create a calm, straightforward setting where people can talk about what matters most to them.
She uses practical tools to help reduce overwhelming emotions and improve day-to-day functioning. Sessions often include goal-setting and simple exercises clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Jessica emphasizes clear communication and steady progress over time rather than quick fixes. Her work often addresses trauma, relationship strains, and issues with self-esteem. She also helps people facing intimacy concerns, family problems, or anger and control issues.
For those dealing with substance use or compulsive behaviors, she combines direct strategies with attention to underlying patterns and triggers. Jessica draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current bonds. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to manage intense emotions.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help people stay present and lower reactivity. Therapy with her is collaborative. She listens, helps set realistic goals, and adjusts the plan as needed.
People who prefer clear structure and practical tools often find this approach helpful. Jessica supports clients through life changes, grief, and rebuilding after difficult experiences.
Approaches that guide online work and skill building
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and fear of abandonment so they can try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and change behavior, which can reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining attachment insights with CBT skills or adding emotion-regulation techniques over time.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts in writing and use brief, on-the-go support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life changes and busy weeks.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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