About Jessica
Jessica Montoya is a licensed professional counselor clinical candidate (LPCC) in New Mexico who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is most urgent for each person.
Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. With nine years of experience, Jessica adapts conversations and plans to fit individual needs.
Background and approach
She draws on Client-Centered principles to create a warm, nonjudgmental space. In sessions she may use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes that reduce distress. Jessica also uses Mindfulness techniques to help people notice their reactions and find calmer moments in the day.
Narrative therapy is another tool she offers to help reframe difficult experiences and reshape personal stories. Motivational Interviewing can be used when people want help finding internal reasons to change. Her work is straightforward and goal-oriented when needed, and gentle when the wound is recent.
Parents and professionals often come for help with caregiving strain, workplace stress, or problems that affect daily life. She helps people rebuild confidence, manage impulses, and sort through guilt, shame, or life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and organized to match individual schedules.
Jessica encourages small steps and clear goals so progress feels tangible rather than vague.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and practical change
Jessica often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thought patterns that keep stress and anxiety active. CBT focuses on small, doable steps and experiments that can lower distress and improve daily functioning. She also brings Client-Centered Therapy into sessions, which means listening closely, validating what is hard, and letting the person guide the pace and goals.Mindfulness techniques are used to teach simple ways to notice sensations and reactions in the body. These tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone wants to build calm habits between sessions. The therapist treats approach selection as a shared process and will work together with each person to decide what fits best based on needs, goals, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows a face-to-face feel and longer therapy work, phone can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a break, chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to pick the format that feels most useful on any given day.
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- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English