About Jessica
Jessica Willis is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of experience in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the fallout from trauma and relationship problems. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what feels overwhelming and learn ways to cope.
Her work addresses many day-to-day struggles like sleep trouble, eating concerns, parenting stress, and career strain. She also helps with deeper issues such as grief, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Jessica pays attention to how patterns of attachment and past losses shape current relationships and reactions. Jessica uses straightforward, practical methods drawn from approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions focus on clear skills people can use between meetings and on shifting thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck.
She also values listening and following each person’s pace to build trust. Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people through life changes, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. That experience informs how she helps people set realistic goals and try small changes that add up.
People who work with Jessica can expect a collaborative process that balances emotional processing with skill-building. She helps clients notice the patterns that matter, practice new ways of responding, and track gradual progress toward better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing concrete behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep disruption. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people understand and change those patterns to improve intimacy and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to a person’s concerns, goals, and daily routine, and then suggest approaches that fit. The plan is collaborative - adjustments are made based on what feels most helpful in practice.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be a simpler check-in, and text or live chat can work for shorter updates or when someone prefers writing. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or health needs while engaging in therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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