About Jessica
Jessica Shea is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience based in New Jersey. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and executive coaching. Jessica aims to make the first step feel manageable and acknowledges that reaching out takes courage.
Her sessions are conversational and grounded. She creates space for people to talk through what feels overwhelming. She listens for practical patterns and helps clients try new ways of coping in everyday life.
Background and approach
Jessica brings two decades of work with people facing workplace strain, caregiving stress, and life transitions such as divorce or fertility challenges. She also supports those processing post-traumatic stress and handling communication problems in close relationships. Her background includes helping young adults navigate next steps and adults manage blended family dynamics.
In sessions she blends coaching-style goal setting with clinical support. That can mean setting short-term goals, practicing communication skills, or building routines to reduce anxiety and stress. She adapts the pace to what each person needs and prioritizes clear, simple steps.
Therapy sessions are offered in English and use a variety of formats: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Start by choosing the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling based on availability.
Evidence-based approaches plus flexible online care
Many clients benefit from techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Cognitive-style approaches help people notice anxious or negative thoughts, test them, and try alternatives that reduce worry and avoidance. These methods are often used for stress, anxiety, and workplace strain.Skills-based strategies are another common focus and teach concrete tools for managing strong emotions. That can include paced breathing, grounding steps, and brief behavioral experiments to see what helps in daily life. These tools are useful for trauma reactions, post-traumatic stress, and high-stress periods like caregiving or disaster recovery.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work together with each person to figure out what fits their goals, needs, and pace. Sessions can shift between goal-setting, skills practice, and problem-solving as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and live chat or text messaging allow ongoing support between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy home lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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