About Jessica
Jessica Gentry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. Jessica aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming right now.
Her style centers on listening first and building on each person's strengths. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and from attachment-based work to improve how people connect with others.
Background and approach
She also draws on techniques for managing strong emotions and trauma when needed. Jessica helps people cope with life transitions, grief, addiction concerns, parenting strain, workplace stress, and issues with intimacy or self-esteem. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment, blended family challenges, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems.
Practical strategies and small behavior changes are often part of sessions. When trauma is part of the story, Jessica uses structured methods to reduce intrusive memories and emotional reactivity. She blends that with client-centered listening so people set the pace.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what feels manageable. People who tend to prefer clear skills, a strengths-based approach, and focused, practical planning typically find this approach helpful. Jessica works by helping people set goals, practice new skills, and track progress between meetings.
She supports those working through complicated emotions and life stressors and looks to help them find steadier footing.
Approach-driven care available online
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and develop safer, more connected ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical steps to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. EMDR is a structured approach used when trauma memories cause distress; it aims to reduce the intensity of those memories and lower emotional reactivity. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress occurs. Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video works well for deeper conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support during a busy week. These options help fit therapy into work, family, and daily life without long commutes.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English