About Jessica
Jessica Erickson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma and parenting challenges. Jessica also helps people wrestling with relationship issues, self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and intimate life changes.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She treats each person as the expert on their life and uses plain conversation and occasional humor to make sessions easier.
How Jessica works
Treatment plans are shaped around what a person needs and what feels doable for them. Jessica draws from several practical approaches. She uses client-centered work to keep the conversation focused on the person’s priorities.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior tools and mindfulness skills support emotional regulation and distress tolerance. She also brings attention to specific situations like abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment struggles, caregiver stress, body image, codependency, and effects of trauma or disaster.
Jessica addresses obsessive-compulsive patterns, dissociation, domestic violence impacts, and issues around forgiveness, guilt, and shame. Sessions are adapted to fit what someone can manage in their life. Jessica aims for clear goals and practical steps.
She works with people across a range of life stages and backgrounds while keeping plans focused and achievable.
Jessica lists 6 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Jessica often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to keep therapy practical and focused. Client-centered work emphasizes listening to the person’s priorities and shaping sessions around their goals, while cognitive behavioral work breaks down thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These DBT-informed strategies are useful for managing intense feelings, improving relationships, and building steady coping routines that can be practiced between sessions.
Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past to design a plan together. She adjusts methods over time based on what the person notices is working or not working.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins or mid-week support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still using the same clinical tools.
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