About Jessica
Jessica Erickson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with five years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and phobias. Her manner is warm and direct, with an openness to light humor when it fits the moment.
Jessica centers sessions on the person in front of her. She treats clients as experts in their own lives and builds plans around their goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and focused on skills that can be used between sessions. Her work draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix is used flexibly to address things like panic, obsessive thoughts, mood swings, and coping with life changes.
Sessions are shaped to the issue at hand rather than following a fixed script. Jessica has experience with a wide range of concerns that also include caregiving stress, attachment and abandonment issues, body image and self-esteem, codependency, and complications that come with trauma or loss. She also supports people navigating parenting stress, adoption and foster care-related matters, and compassion fatigue.
People who choose her often want clear, usable tools and a steady, empathetic listener. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients may be served in English.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's goals. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they share, and helps them clarify what matters most. This approach supports people who want a nonjudgmental space to sort through emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches practical skills for anxiety, phobias, obsessive thoughts, and low mood. Sessions often include short exercises or homework to practice between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches skills in distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and effective communication, which can help with anger, mood instability, and patterns of codependency.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what works best for each person. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using and which to change.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options increase flexibility and help maintain continuity of care when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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