About Jessica
Jessica Edmundson is a licensed counselor with 12 years of clinical experience who helps people facing addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She uses a down-to-earth style and builds practical plans that fit each person's needs. Jessica focuses on respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
She is based in Ohio and holds the LPCC credential. Clients can expect straightforward, solution-focused conversations. Jessica draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and create manageable behavioral changes.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small steps toward them. Mindfulness skills are introduced in simple, easy-to-use ways to reduce stress and improve emotional awareness. Dialectical behavior techniques are available for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.
Sessions emphasize skill-building so people leave with tools they can use between meetings. Jessica has worked in both inpatient and outpatient addiction settings and brings that experience into treatment plans when relevant. She tailors pacing and goals to each person's situation and keeps the focus practical and doable.
Her background includes supporting people through grief, parenting stress, career changes, and chronic health challenges. Outside of work she is a parent who enjoys outdoor activities and quiet coffee moments. That personal perspective informs a gentle, grounded approach to therapy.
Jessica aims to make the first step easier by offering clear next steps and scheduling flexibility when possible.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed action toward those values. Online ACT sessions often include short exercises and practical homework to practice values-based steps between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In virtual sessions this often looks like collaborative problem solving, thought records, and brief behavior experiments people can try during the week.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean mixing ACT, CBT, and mindfulness techniques to suit changing needs over time.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill coaching, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins or brief support between sessions. These options give flexibility in how and when people connect with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English