About Jessica
Jessica McDaniel is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, with an emphasis on small, steady progress.
She guides people through relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and shifts in career or parenting roles. Jessica uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to look at how thoughts affect feelings and actions.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to help people stay present and make choices that match their values. Sessions often include learning stress-relief skills such as relaxation exercises and simple mindfulness practices. Jessica helps people develop routines for sleep, eating, and managing anger.
She also supports those navigating bipolar mood patterns and compassion fatigue by building practical coping plans. Jessica approaches ADHD-related challenges with the same focus on behavior, routines, and skill-building as other concerns. She works with clients to break goals into manageable steps and to create supports that fit daily life.
Progress is tracked together so adjustments can be made when needed. Her approach is conversational and goal-oriented. New clients complete an intake, then Jessica and the client set clear targets and check progress regularly.
She aims to make therapy usable between sessions so changes stick in real life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action in those directions, even when tough feelings show up. It focuses on values and small steps rather than trying to eliminate every uncomfortable thought. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behavior interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and functioning. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during daily tasks.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals, preferences, and daily routines. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, and mindfulness techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is tracked together.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match what works for the client. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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