About Jessica
Jessica O'Connor-Rathbun is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical help for people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel approachable and doable. Sessions tend to center on clear goals and skills that people can use between meetings.
She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for conversations about self-esteem, attachment concerns, emptiness, and guilt. Jessica listens for patterns that contribute to repeated problems and helps people identify small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her work often emphasizes improving communication and managing strong emotions. Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. That means she draws on methods shown to help with mood and stress regulation, relationship difficulties, and processing upsetting experiences.
She adapts tools to each person's situation rather than using a single fixed plan. Her experience includes addressing issues such as abandonment wounds, blended family stress, caregiver strain, codependency, and first responder challenges. She also supports people dealing with impulsivity and commitment worries.
Conversations can cover family of origin concerns and practical steps for healthier patterns. Therapy is provided in multiple online formats so people can choose what fits their life. Jessica explains options clearly and helps clients pick a rhythm that works for their schedule and goals.
The focus is on usable strategies and steady progress over time.
Practical approaches for online mood and relationship work
Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to structure online sessions. One common approach focuses on skills for emotion regulation and stress management, teaching concrete ways to reduce anxiety and handle big feelings in everyday moments. Another approach centers on communication skills and relationship patterns, helping people notice unhelpful cycles and try new ways of speaking and listening that reduce conflict.Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to identify goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what is helpful. Clients help shape the plan and Jessica offers feedback and homework that align with each person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in, live chat supports real-time written conversation, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English