About Jessica
Jessica Steely is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who uses person-centered and mindfulness-based methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. The tone in sessions is collaborative and straightforward so people can start making changes sooner.
She helps people sort through relationship and communication problems. She also supports those coping with life changes, self-esteem struggles, and feelings of abandonment or attachment concerns.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to body image, codependency, commitment issues, and blended family dynamics. Jessica draws on mindfulness to help people notice patterns without harsh judgment. That helps when anxiety or low mood keep someone stuck.
The person-centered side of her work emphasizes each person's strengths and goals, so plans are tailored to what fits their life. With nine years of experience, she has worked with people facing substance use concerns, boundary and communication difficulties, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce.
She aims to teach skills that people can use outside of sessions to improve day-to-day coping. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in Pennsylvania and beyond, including international clients. Her practice offers flexible formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to match different needs and schedules.
Practical approaches and online counseling options
Jessica uses person-centered work to focus on each person's goals and strengths, helping clients shape practical steps that fit their life. This approach helps when someone needs straightforward support for communication, boundaries, or self-esteem.She also uses mindfulness-based techniques to teach attention and grounding skills. Mindfulness helps reduce reactivity to stress and gives people tools to manage anxiety or depressive thinking in the moment.
Finding the right approach is something she does with each client. She will listen to your needs and try methods that match your goals, then adjust the plan as you learn what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats provide flexibility for different schedules and practical situations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English