About Jessica
Jessica Peres is a licensed professional counselor practicing in New Jersey. She brings nine years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She speaks English and Portuguese and offers straightforward, compassionate care.
Jessica focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life. She helps people build stronger communication, manage intense emotions, and work through relationship and intimacy concerns. Sessions are aimed at small, steady changes rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Her approach blends attachment-based work with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she looks at how early relationships affect current feelings, helps clients spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and uses simple exercises to reduce overwhelm. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
People often come to her for issues such as codependency, abandonment concerns, body image struggles, and problems with trust or commitment. She also supports those dealing with anger, caregiver stress, substance use, and the fallout of separation or domestic violence. The work includes building coping skills and safer ways to relate to others.
Jessica uses a client-centered stance that keeps the person in charge of goals. She mixes practical skill-building with chances to process painful history. The result is a clear plan and ongoing support to try new ways of living and relating.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this often means talking through past hurts, spotting repeating relationship habits, and practicing new ways to connect and set boundaries. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and problems like avoidance or negative self-talk.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. That may mean combining attachment insight with CBT tasks or adding mindfulness exercises to manage strong emotions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to continue this work. Video calls make it possible to have face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, or a way to practice new skills in real time. These options help therapy fit into a busy schedule and different comfort levels.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Portuguese