About Jessica
Jessica Hodges is a licensed professional counselor who aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She uses clear conversation and gentle guidance to help people manage stress, anxiety, and addiction-related concerns. Jessica welcomes direct questions and keeps session goals focused and realistic.
With six years of experience and licensure noted as LPC-MHSP and LPC, she adapts her approach to each person's needs. Sessions emphasize building confidence, improving self-esteem, and finding motivation to change habits.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like body image, social anxiety, and struggles with control and impulsivity. Jessica draws on several therapy styles to meet real-life problems. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Attachment-focused work helps people understand relationship patterns that affect emotions and choices. Her work also includes mindfulness and acceptance strategies that teach ways to live with difficult feelings while pursuing meaningful goals. Dialectical skills are used when people need stronger tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication.
Jessica focuses on respectful, nonjudgmental conversation and practical steps people can use between sessions. She helps parents and individuals sort through parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Starting therapy is often hard; she aims to make the process simple, steady, and personally tailored.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small steps toward what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and responding to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as needed. That means trying practical tools in sessions and checking what helps between appointments.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that feels most helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick reflections and ongoing support between scheduled meetings. These options provide flexibility so therapy can continue around work, family, and other commitments.
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English