About Jessica
Jessica Decker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with ten years of experience. She focuses on clear, practical support for stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, and self-esteem. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people feel understood and steady during hard moments.
Jessica blends several therapeutic methods to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take small meaningful steps.
How Jessica works
Attachment-based ideas help explore patterns in close relationships and improve connection. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help finding the energy to make changes. She pays attention to cultural context and multicultural concerns when people bring identity and background into sessions.
She also addresses issues related to caregiving stress, communication problems, eating and food-related concerns, immigration challenges, isolation, and finding life purpose. Pregnancy, childbirth, and women's issues are included in her focus areas as well. Jessica works with people on painful topics like grief and self-harm thoughts in a steady, nonjudgmental way.
Sessions aim to build skills that can be used between meetings and to set achievable goals. The tone in therapy is collaborative - she listens, reflects, and helps people try different strategies. Therapy sessions are offered through multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
Jessica uses a client-centered stance and adapts tools to what each person prefers and needs.
Jessica lists 8 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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter, which can ease anxiety and help with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches simple tools to change them, useful for stress, anxiety, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how they affect emotional responses, helping people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, pay attention to what helps, and adjust the plan as needed in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging allows brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit appointments around work, parenting, or caregiving responsibilities and make it easier to keep continuity when life is busy.
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