About Jamie
Jamie Hess is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 15 years of work experience. She began her career working with adolescents in school settings and carries that background into her practice. Jamie focuses on helping people gain motivation, boost self-esteem, and set goals they can follow through on.
She helps clients break goals into manageable steps and build a growth mindset that supports change. Jamie uses straightforward conversations to help people make plans and track progress.
How Jamie works
She emphasizes identifying strengths and building resilience so people can move forward from setbacks. Emotions and feelings are part of the work. Jamie guides people through processing those emotions to get clearer about what’s happening and what to do next.
She aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring conversations and plans to each person’s situation. Her areas of focus include relationship concerns, self-esteem, career questions, coping with life changes, coaching, stress and anxiety, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas are communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), self-love, and social anxiety and phobia. Jamie works with each person to develop a plan that fits their goals and day-to-day life. She recognizes starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the first steps as clear and manageable as possible.
What Jamie works with
The areas below are the ones Jamie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Jamie uses practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on motivation and goal-setting. These approaches help people identify small steps, create achievable plans, and strengthen a growth mindset to support lasting change. This style is useful for issues like anxiety, low self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with life changes.She also emphasizes emotion processing and resilience building. That work involves talking through feelings, naming strengths, and practicing strategies to manage stress and improve sleep. It can be helpful for grief, trauma recovery, compassion fatigue, and social anxiety.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jamie will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. The focus is on what helps the person function better in daily life and meet measurable goals.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works well for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule.
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