About Jessica
Jessica Edmundson is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, phobias, depression, addiction, and stress. Jessica aims to make first steps feel manageable and practical for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Her sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens closely, then helps clients set clear steps they can try between meetings. The work often includes building coping skills, improving self-esteem, and addressing patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Jessica uses several well-known therapy methods depending on the person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people identify values and take small actions toward them. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and practice different responses.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Her background includes years supporting people with addiction in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She also has experience helping people process trauma, loss, relationship strain, and life transitions.
Jessica says compassion and respect guide her work, and she aims to tailor sessions to each person’s situation. Outside of work she is a parent and enjoys outdoor activities like walking and camping. She understands how life’s interruptions can affect mental health and frames therapy as a practical partnership to get through hard moments.
To start, she asks people to describe immediate concerns so early sessions focus on what is most pressing. Over time the plan can shift as progress and goals become clearer.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Jessica frequently uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, phobias, and motivation problems because it focuses on action rather than trying to eliminate all difficult feelings.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different ways of responding. CBT is practical and skills-focused, which many people find helpful for panic, depression, and specific fears. Mindfulness techniques are offered alongside these approaches to teach attention skills and reduce emotional reactivity.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to concerns, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work together to decide which methods fit goals, preferences, and daily life demands.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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