About Jessica
Dr. Jessica Temple is a clinical rehabilitation neuropsychologist licensed in Pennsylvania and Virginia. She has 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, sleep problems, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
She aims to make the first step into therapy feel doable and respectful of each person’s experience. Her work often focuses on challenges that come from chronic illness, traumatic brain injury, and thinking or memory difficulties. She helps people who feel isolated or who are trying to rebuild routines after medical events.
Background and approach
Practical strategies are a regular part of sessions, along with support for emotional reactions to long-term health issues. Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness techniques. That means sessions can include noticing difficult thoughts, testing small behavior changes, and practicing simple attention skills.
She uses these tools to help people reduce worry, sleep better, and manage concentration struggles related to ADHD. In appointments she aims to create a trusting space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She works with clients to set small, measurable goals and to try adjustments between sessions.
Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people can see what helps. Dr. Temple also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, workplace strain, life purpose questions, and recovery after brain injury.
She practices in Virginia and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match personal values. This can help with anxiety, low motivation, and frustration linked to chronic health problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, breaking problems into small, manageable steps to reduce worry and improve sleep and concentration.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with the person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions start with a discussion of what’s most pressing and then adapt methods over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and structured skill practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, coaching between sessions, or people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to try different ways of working until a good fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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