About Gessica
Gessica Yearwood is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She focuses on helping people who struggle with motivation, self-esteem, focus, and concentration. Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, and the daily challenges that make life feel harder to manage.
She frames therapy as a respectful, down-to-earth conversation. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs, with simple goals and clear steps. Gessica emphasizes practical strategies that can be used between meetings to improve routine, sleep, and mood.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's goals front and center. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different habits. Dialectical behavior techniques and solution-focused tools are brought in when emotion regulation or short-term problem solving is useful.
Gessica has six years of experience working with people who want better focus, more confidence, and relief from worry. She pays attention to what each person finds most helpful and adjusts the pace accordingly. The aim is steady progress rather than overnight fixes.
People who choose her often want practical steps and a compassionate listener. She supports parents dealing with parenting strain and individuals navigating relationship stress, grief, or social anxiety. Conversations are paced to fit busy lives and goals are set so progress feels manageable.
Practical approaches for online support and focus
Client-centered Therapy emphasizes respectful listening and shaping the work around each person's goals. It helps when someone needs an empathetic space to talk and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers straightforward techniques for managing anxiety, improving sleep, and changing habits that get in the way of focus and motivation.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides tools for managing strong emotions and improving stress tolerance. It can be useful when worry, anger, or intense feelings make daily tasks harder.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. The aim is to build skills that work in everyday life rather than rely on a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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