About Jessica
Jessica Skinner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Jessica speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy understandable and practical.
She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also uses solution-focused tools to build small, achievable changes that matter day to day.
Background and approach
Jessica blends these approaches with psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns that repeat over time. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Jessica works with people facing parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, career stress, mood symptoms, ADHD, and trauma-related issues.
She also supports people navigating identity and multicultural concerns, perinatal mood changes, and burnout or compassion fatigue. Her training includes a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been licensed in Texas since 2006 and practicing as a psychotherapist since 2008.
That experience guides her practical, steady approach. In meetings she focuses on clear steps and tools that clients can use between sessions. Jessica helps people set realistic goals, track progress, and adapt strategies when life shifts.
The work aims to reduce worry and increase day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and meeting each person where they are. It emphasizes empathy and collaboration so clients feel heard while they set goals and try new strategies.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, mood difficulties, and stress, and includes exercises to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That process is collaborative and open to change as goals evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit a short break during the workday or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
These formats make it easier to keep regular appointments and to practice new skills in day-to-day life. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to whichever format works best for the client.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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