About Jessica
Jessica Davis is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, who helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unlike themselves. She speaks plainly and listens closely so clients can say what matters without feeling judged. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at day-to-day relief as well as longer-term change.
Jessica draws on several well-known therapy styles to match each person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to make room for the person's own pace and insight. Her work covers common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma and abuse.
She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, grief, and coping with life changes. Jessica has seven years of clinical experience and aims for straightforward tools people can use between sessions. Jessica pays attention to the whole person, not just symptoms.
Sessions are collaborative, with homework kept practical and manageable. She helps clients build skills to manage intense feelings, improve communication, and reconnect with what they value. Clients can expect a warm, honest tone in sessions.
Jessica practices in Mississippi and offers a mix of conversation and skill-building tailored to each person's situation.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, then pick behaviors that fit their values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes by focusing on what matters most, even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills because it breaks big problems into small, doable experiments. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own experience, with the therapist offering empathy and guidance so clients can find their own solutions and build self-trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jessica will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, pace, and preferences. She adapts tools over time if something isn’t helping, and she checks in about what feels useful and what needs change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different lives. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, short coaching, or when a written format helps someone process their thoughts. These options increase flexibility for scheduling, location, and how people like to communicate.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English