About Jessica
Jessica Hanson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strain, ADHD, and caregiving demands. Her style is warm and practical, with straightforward help for everyday problems.
Jessica believes therapy should be simple and useful. Sessions focus on what is getting in the way now and on small, doable steps to change things.
Background and approach
She listens first and then works with each person to set clear goals and priorities. Her work often supports people facing life changes - a major illness, loss, or new caregiving roles. She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to build emotion regulation skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools are used to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Jessica also uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to strengthen relationships and help people feel understood. She has experience supporting caregivers and people coping with chronic illness and bereavement, including pet loss and end-of-life concerns.
Based in Wisconsin, she aims to make therapy practical and relatable. The focus is on helping people regain stability, manage symptoms, and move toward goals they care about.
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Jessica commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters. ACT focuses on clarifying values and noticing thoughts without getting stuck, which can help with motivation, stress, and managing ADHD-related challenges. CBT focuses on identifying thinking patterns and practicing different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas in sessions to build trust and improve communication. Finding the right approach is a shared process - the therapist will ask about goals, try strategies together, and adjust the plan based on what works for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, or a way to reach out when scheduling a real-time appointment is difficult. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, California
- Languages
- English
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