About Jessica
Jessica Katz welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She helps clients who face stress, phobias, trauma, parenting strain, addiction, grief, or relationship and intimacy concerns. Jessica offers straightforward support and clear steps to manage hard moments.
Jessica Katz is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 21 years of experience. She practices in Utah and draws on approaches that help people make practical change and build new coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what steps a person can try between meetings. Her work combines attention to early attachment patterns with practical, goal-oriented techniques. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also integrates EMDR for processing trauma and existential ideas to help people find meaning after loss or change. Jessica describes the therapeutic relationship as a gradual partnership. She supports people through uncomfortable moments and models skills until clients can use them on their own.
Her style is steady and direct, with encouragement to practice new behaviors outside sessions. Background includes prior practice in New York and Florida before relocating to Utah. Jessica brings experience addressing ADHD, mood concerns, eating and body image struggles, abandonment and attachment issues, caregiving stress, and blended family transitions.
She works with people across a wide range of life challenges and focuses on concrete tools that reduce distress.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Jessica blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques and EMDR to address fear, trauma, and relationship patterns. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and helps people notice how those patterns show up now and get different results. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical steps to change behaviors and reduce anxiety. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to help process traumatic memories that keep causing distress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, symptoms, and comfort level. She offers a paced plan so clients can try techniques, give feedback, and adjust the approach together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper therapeutic work and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports short, ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, New York
- Languages
- English
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