About Jessica
Jessica Gerson is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and phobias. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping clients feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She draws on methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Sessions focus on building skills that people can use between meetings, such as coping strategies for anxiety and tools for sleep and anger management.
Background and approach
She also addresses identity and sexuality concerns, ADHD, and body image in a nonjudgmental way. Jessica places strong value on the relationship with each person she sees. She aims to be supportive while helping clients face difficult feelings and memories.
That means working together to choose approaches that fit each person's needs and goals rather than applying the same plan to everyone. Her work can include short-term problem solving as well as deeper exploration of patterns that cause ongoing distress. Clients often leave sessions with concrete steps to try and a clearer sense of what to do next.
Jessica practices in Massachusetts and communicates in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling once a match is made.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, which can help with phobias, sleep issues, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes understanding each person’s experience and building a trusting relationship, which supports work on self-esteem, identity, and relationship concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting plans based on what actually works for the individual.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for midday check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it simpler to fit brief check-ins into a busy schedule. These options make it more flexible to get support while managing work, school, parenting, or health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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