About Jessica
Jessica Willis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Mississippi with 23 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what feels hard and learn practical ways to cope. Jessica keeps language plain and focuses on small, doable steps that fit everyday life.
Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, and ADHD.
Background and approach
People come to her for help with sleeping and eating struggles, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and major life changes. Jessica draws from several evidence-based approaches to shape sessions. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking and from acceptance-oriented practices to build willingness around difficult feelings.
Attachment-informed ideas guide work on relationship patterns and how people relate to others. In a typical meeting she listens closely, helps set clear goals, and suggests concrete skills to try between sessions. The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive, with an emphasis on what the person wants to change.
Progress is measured in small wins that build over time. Her background includes long-term clinical practice in Mississippi. Jessica aims to help people increase resilience, regain a sense of control, and reconnect to what matters most.
She approaches each person's story with patience and practical focus.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Jessica blends cognitive behavioral techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in practical ways. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values, and take committed action toward a meaningful life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to use the approaches described above in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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