About Jessica
Jessica Hankins offers straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, parenting strain, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship challenges. She communicates in plain language and helps clients set small, concrete goals. Jessica works from Georgia and brings 14 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC.
Jessica focuses on practical tools clients can try between sessions. She uses client-centered conversations so people feel heard. She blends cognitive-behavioral ideas and solution-focused steps to build coping plans.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and emotionally-focused pieces are added when they fit the situation. Sessions typically look like a guided conversation with clear next steps. Jessica helps people identify unhelpful thinking, practice new responses, and test those changes in daily life.
She also supports parents looking for coaching around routines and behavior strategies. Her background includes work in schools and clinical settings, giving experience with attention differences, learning challenges, and emotional regulation. That experience informs a pace that is steady and practical rather than rushed.
Jessica aims to help clients build skills they can use long after sessions end. She focuses on manageable changes rather than big, immediate overhauls. Many people leave sessions with one or two specific practices to try during the week.
How Jessica’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work concentrates on the person’s perspective and priorities. Sessions focus on listening and reflecting so clients decide the pace and topics. This approach helps people feel understood and sets the stage for practical change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions together. Jessica uses CBT techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try alternative responses. This is helpful for anxiety, depression, ADHD struggles, and stress management.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice, name, and process strong feelings. It can be useful for relationship stress, grief, and managing emotional reactions. Jessica blends emotionally-focused ideas with mindfulness to teach breathing and grounding skills.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica will discuss goals and try methods that match a client’s needs and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what proves useful in real life.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging lets clients send short updates between meetings. These options give flexibility so clients can use therapy in ways that fit their routines and responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English