About Jessica
Jessica Hackett-Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and grief. She also supports parents navigating parenting challenges and people coping with ADHD. Her approach is straightforward and practical, focused on skills people can use between sessions.
She has worked in mental health since 2004 and brings 13 years as an LPC to her practice. That experience includes counseling across different ages and settings, with attention to behavior and everyday routines that affect wellbeing.
Background and approach
Jessica draws on behavior-focused strategies to make change feel manageable. Sessions often center on clear, step-by-step plans. She helps clients break problems into small parts, practice new skills, and track what works.
Conversations cover communication, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and ways to reduce isolation or loneliness. For parents and caregivers, Jessica focuses on practical parenting strategies and caregiver stress. She talks through routines, expectations, and simple behavior approaches families can try at home.
Her goal is to help people feel more confident handling daily struggles. She works from Pennsylvania and offers sessions in English. People can expect a direct, compassionate style that emphasizes learning and steady progress.
Jessica aims to make therapy a useful part of daily life, not just something that happens once a week.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Jessica uses evidence-based techniques that focus on observable behavior and practical skills. Behavior-focused strategies look at routines and triggers, then build small, repeatable changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. This approach is useful for ADHD challenges, caregiving stress, and behavior-related parenting concerns.She also incorporates trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult experiences at a manageable pace. These techniques aim to reduce reactivity and teach coping tools for anxiety, grief, and post-traumatic stress. The therapist and client work together to choose which methods fit the client's goals and situation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica collaborates with each person to test strategies and adjust based on what helps most. Clients set priorities and try tools in between sessions so progress is practical and measurable.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat suits quick check-ins or ongoing support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care across changing routines.
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- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English