About Jessica
Jessica Whittington is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and ADHD. She creates a calm space where clients can say what they feel and think without judgment. Jessica emphasizes practical steps that fit into daily life and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
With 11 years of experience, Jessica draws from straightforward, evidence-informed methods. She listens first, then suggests tools that match each person's needs and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Her approach is collaborative. Jessica uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s pace and priorities.
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns that keep problems going and DBT strategies for managing strong emotions. People often bring concerns about relationships, parenting strain, career stress, substance use, body image, or caregiving responsibilities. Jessica also addresses issues such as trauma, abandonment, sleep problems, and coping with major life changes.
She frames work as problem-solving, not blame. Therapy with Jessica balances practical techniques and steady support. She helps people set clear goals, practice new habits between sessions, and adjust plans when needed.
The focus is on building useful skills and small, sustainable changes.
Approaches that inform online care
Jessica often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's priorities, which helps when someone needs to explore feelings or make sense of a difficult situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors to find small changes that reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that seem to fit, and adjust plans as needed. That collaborative process helps identify which strategies feel most useful.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make short updates or brief coaching possible between longer appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy routines and stick with work over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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