About Jessica
Jessica Whittington is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling anxious, stressed, or overwhelmed and guides them toward clearer choices and calmer days. She creates a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they are feeling.
Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation so worries feel more manageable. Jessica encourages small changes that add up over time. Her work often addresses grief, depression, and relationships.
Background and approach
She also supports those navigating addiction, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns. Parenting stress, sleep and eating issues, and career-related strain are common topics she helps people sort through. Jessica uses approaches that center the person and their goals.
She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and on solution-focused ideas to find doable next steps. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when intense emotions or relationship patterns need clearer tools. Clients can expect sessions that balance listening with concrete skills and short-term strategies.
Jessica aims to help people develop tools they can use between sessions. Her style is patient, direct, and focused on what works in daily life.
How Jessica’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person and their goals. It involves listening, reflecting what you say, and helping you choose the next steps that make sense for your life. This approach helps people feel heard and work toward clearer priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing specific skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Techniques include emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that can reduce overwhelm in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust based on goals and what feels most helpful. Clients help shape the plan so it fits their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact and work through exercises. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, between-session problem solving, or users who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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