About Jessica
Jessica Beane greets visitors with a straightforward message: seeking help is brave. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with ten years of experience in mental health care. Jessica focuses on issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, parenting stress, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
She aims to make the first steps feel easier for people who are overwhelmed or unsure where to begin. Her approach is warm and practical.
Background and approach
Jessica centers sessions on building trust so people can talk about difficult parts of their lives. She draws from a range of methods so she can match tools to each person's situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing are two approaches she uses often to help change unhelpful thought patterns and increase motivation for change.
Jessica’s background includes work in residential settings, community mental health, and rehabilitation programs. That experience brought her into contact with people from diverse neighborhoods and age groups. She has supported clients dealing with grief, bipolar symptoms, sleep problems, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and substance use concerns among other challenges.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps and clear goals. Jessica believes progress matters more than perfection and works collaboratively to set realistic next steps. She encourages people to notice small changes and to build skills that fit daily life.
For people who prefer online care, she offers multiple ways to connect. She invites questions and highlights that finding the right fit can take time, and she works alongside clients as they move toward greater well-being.
Practical approaches for online care and skill building
Jessica commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts that affect feelings and behaviors, then trying different ways of thinking to change outcomes. It can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and unhelpful habits. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening stance where the therapist reflects and supports the person’s own process of finding answers and building self-worth.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve coping. These techniques are often useful for stress, anger, trauma symptoms, and impulse control. Jessica approaches planning as a collaboration - she will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals, preferences, and daily life rather than prescribing one fixed path.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a more flexible check-in. Chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, tracking progress, or having shorter, focused conversations between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life and to keep continuity of care across different circumstances.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English