About Jessica
Jessica Wansley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety find clearer footing. She uses plain talk and an interactive style to help people handle everyday pressures. Jessica aims to make change feel doable and to help clients focus on the present day.
With 20 years of experience, Jessica draws on several practical methods to guide sessions. She leans on client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thoughts and habits that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and narrative work are woven in to help people notice their reactions and reframe difficult stories. She has worked in a range of settings in the U.S. and abroad, which shaped a flexible, down-to-earth approach. Jessica values respect, compassion, and honest feedback during sessions.
She avoids over-relying on labels and treats each person as a whole - mind, body, and spirit. Common concerns she addresses include relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction issues, low self-esteem, anger, and life transitions. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment wounds, blended family and family-of-origin problems, codependency, and caregiver stress.
In sessions clients can expect a tailored plan based on their goals. Jessica emphasizes collaboration and steady steps rather than quick fixes. She encourages people to take the small actions that lead to better days.
How Jessica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely to what matters to each person and shaping sessions around their priorities. Online, this means conversations follow the client's pace and goals, so sessions feel personally tailored and collaborative.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. Over video or phone, CBT tools like thought records, behavior experiments, and short skill practices can be introduced and reviewed between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist works together with the client to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online formats offer flexibility that helps people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let visual cues guide the conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on the go, and live chat or text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep steady momentum toward goals while balancing daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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