About Jessica
Jessica Willis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with 23 years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what feels stuck and work toward practical change. Jessica focuses on clear goals and steps people can try between sessions.
Her practice addresses anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and stress. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions, sleeping and eating problems, and parenting stress.
Background and approach
Phobias are included among the issues she supports people with when relevant. Jessica uses approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different behaviors. She also brings attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships and emotional understanding.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills may be used for managing strong emotions. Sessions focus on concrete strategies, skill practice, and making changes that fit daily life. Jessica pays attention to each person’s history, strengths, and values when shaping a plan.
She aims to help people build resilience and clearer ways of relating to themselves and others. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation, goal-setting, and tools to use between sessions. Jessica offers support for a wide range of life changes and emotional challenges, and she works with each person to find what helps them move forward.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, committed steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing new strategies to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses, helping people build healthier ways of relating and feeling safer in close connections.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the first conversations. The therapist will work collaboratively to match techniques to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining ACT and CBT skills, or adding attachment work to focus on relationship patterns, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill coaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make scheduling easier and let people use therapy in ways that fit their day-to-day 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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