About Jessica
Jessica Gentry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 12 years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on what each person already brings to the room and helps them build on those strengths. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at making day-to-day life easier for worried parents and adults managing stress or ADHD.
Jessica uses a trauma-informed lens to understand how past events shape current challenges.
Background and approach
She draws from attachment-focused work to help people notice patterns in close relationships and from cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming. In sessions she keeps language simple and concrete.
People can expect to talk through real examples, try small behavior changes, and practice skills between meetings. Therapy can address sleep, relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, mood swings, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Her background includes long experience in advocacy and community mental health settings.
That history informs a practical approach to problem solving and a focus on matters that affect family life and daily routines. Jessica explains options, helps set manageable goals, and checks in on what is working. She offers a mix of conversation and structured exercises rather than abstract theory.
Parents often appreciate the clear, step-by-step plans for managing overwhelm, improving communication, and supporting consistent routines. The goal is steady, usable change that fits family life.
Approaches that inform online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people recognize patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect current reactions. It focuses on building safer, more predictable ways of relating and can be useful for intimacy issues and attachment concerns.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and timing. The therapist uses active listening and reflection so the person can find their own solutions and move at a pace that feels manageable.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors that improve mood, sleep, focus, and daily routines.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and weigh options together. That collaborative process helps shape a flexible plan that can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues while phone sessions can be easier during short breaks or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or sharing progress between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy family schedule or to continue care when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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