About Jessica
Jessica Erickson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with five years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy issues. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, and she often uses gentle humor to help people relax during hard conversations.
She centers sessions on each person's story and goals. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs that week, whether that's coping skills, emotion regulation, or practical problem solving.
Background and approach
Jessica draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior ideas to teach steadying skills. Her approach also emphasizes listening first and following the client's lead. That means asking what matters most, then building small steps toward change.
Motivational interviewing techniques can help when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps. Jessica has worked with concerns across a wide range, including grief, caregiver stress, body image, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and mood disorders. She adapts methods to match each person's pace and comfort level rather than using one fixed plan.
People who meet with her should expect clear, practical strategies and straightforward conversation. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, and progress is reviewed regularly to keep work relevant and achievable.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Jessica uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors; this approach often includes homework tasks and simple experiments to test new ways of thinking. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy ideas to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that can help during intense moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English