About Jessica
Jessica Benash is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers a calm, person-focused approach to therapy. She brings 18 years of clinical experience and a straightforward, compassionate style. Jessica aims to create a respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, parenting worries, grief, or struggles with self-esteem.
She has worked in residential treatment, day treatment, and outpatient settings. That background means she has helped people with depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and challenges linked to chronic pain or illness.
How Jessica works
Jessica also supports those coping with life changes, career strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related concerns. Her sessions are warm and interactive. She centers the conversation on the person in front of her and looks for practical next steps.
Jessica blends client-centered work with solution-focused strategies and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and build new habits. When trauma is part of the story, she uses trauma-focused methods to help people process painful events at a pace that feels manageable. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.
She also teaches social work as an adjunct professor, which keeps her connected to current practice and research. Jessica emphasizes a strong therapeutic relationship as a key part of getting results and helps people notice strengths they already have. To begin, she encourages straightforward conversation about goals and practical next steps.
Her style favors doable changes and steady progress rather than long lists of tasks.
Jessica lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Jessica works with
The areas below are the ones Jessica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How Jessica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, validation, and working from each person's priorities. Online sessions let the therapist follow the person's lead and tailor conversations to what matters most that day, whether sorting parenting stress or coping with grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. In remote sessions Jessica can guide thought records, behavioral tasks, and short homework exercises that fit into daily life.
Trauma-focused therapy helps people process painful memories at a manageable pace and build coping skills for emotional and physical reactions. Online formats allow gradual exposure or grounding practices guided by the therapist without needing an in-person visit.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Jessica will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then propose methods to try. She adjusts plans as progress is made so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help make ongoing care more accessible and easier to fold into a busy life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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