About Jessica
Jessica Stern is a New Hampshire psychologist with three decades of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy clear and practical for busy families and individuals. Her style is straightforward and often lightly humorous to ease tension during hard conversations.
Jessica uses a mix of therapy methods to match each person's needs. She blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with psychodynamic perspectives and attachment-informed thinking.
Background and approach
She also draws on trauma-focused approaches for people coping with abuse, panic, or post-traumatic stress. Her work often centers on immediate goals. Sessions include skill building for anxiety and panic, communication strategies for relationship and family problems, and coping plans for major health or life transitions.
She supports people facing abandonment, adoption or foster care issues, immigration stress, and the challenges of blended families. Jessica has considerable experience with multicultural and Hispanic clients and integrates that background into treatment when helpful. She treats concerns such as depression, loneliness, parenting strain, low self-esteem, career crossroads, and midlife reassessment with practical steps and clear explanations.
Assessment, goal-setting, and collaborative planning guide the work from the start. Her practice also incorporates mindfulness and trauma-focused tools like EMDR when appropriate. She describes therapy as a team effort and helps people create changes they can use outside the session.
How attachment, CBT, and EMDR work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and reflective questions to identify how past attachments affect current stress and relationships, then build new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In remote sessions this often means practicing skills during calls, using worksheets or brief exercises in between, and tracking progress to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people work through trauma memories in a structured way. When used online it combines guided processing with careful pacing and repeated check-ins to manage distress during the work.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select methods that match their goals, symptoms, and comfort level. Plans are reviewed and adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy work and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or quick coaching between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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