About Jessica
Jessica Katz is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and parenting struggles. She brings 21 years of experience and a calm, steady presence to conversations about relationships, identity, and life changes. She prefers clear, practical work in the therapy room.
Jessica uses approaches that teach coping skills and shift patterns of thought and feeling. She also uses methods designed to address painful memories and attachment wounds so people can feel more grounded in relationships and daily life.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a warm, respectful tone and straightforward guidance. Jessica describes the therapeutic relationship as a dance - sometimes the client leads, sometimes she does. That image reflects a collaborative style where the therapist offers structure when things feel overwhelming and steps back as clients gain confidence.
Her background includes work in multiple states before settling in Utah, and she holds both LMHC and LPC credentials. Over two decades she has helped people with grief, addiction, eating and body image concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges tied to adoption, attachment, and blended family dynamics.
Sessions focus on skill building, processing difficult memories when needed, and practical problem-solving for daily life. Jessica aims to help people feel steadier, better able to cope, and more in control of the next steps in their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Jessica uses it to help people notice and change how they relate to others and manage fear of abandonment or trust issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and coping with life changes. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method used to process painful memories so they feel less overwhelming and disruptive in daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try an approach, and adjust as needed. Clients and therapist work together to find what helps most, blending techniques when that makes sense.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are convenient for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, New York
- Languages
- English