About Jessica
Jessica Hervatin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with decades of experience helping people manage hard problems. She brings a calm, open approach and focuses on what each person needs right now. Jessica’s style is compassionate and direct, aiming to help people take practical steps toward relief.
She uses common, evidence-based approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, and motivational interviewing. Those methods are adapted to each situation so conversations stay focused and useful.
Background and approach
Jessica draws on many years working in hospitals, employee assistance programs, and addiction treatment settings. Her background includes crisis counseling and work with people involved in the criminal justice system. She has supported people through depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and addiction.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related problems along with identity and LGBT concerns. Jessica prioritizes clear goals and small, practical steps. Sessions look at patterns that cause repeated stress and introduce realistic skills to change them.
She aims to help people build more steady coping, stronger self-regard, and better daily routines. Over a long career she has taught at a university and worked across many treatment environments. Her experience informs a flexible approach that is rooted in listening first, then choosing tools that match what each person wants to work on.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It emphasizes empathy and helping people set their own goals, which works well in conversations over video or text. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, concentrates on identifying unhelpful thoughts and habits and replacing them with practical skills to reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT exercises and homework fit easily into remote sessions and follow-up messages.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide whether client-centered listening, CBT, DBT skills, or motivational interviewing techniques are the best match and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people with work, caregiving, or mobility constraints and help maintain continuity of care across locations.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English