About Jessica
Jessica Hankins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She offers calm, practical support for day-to-day struggles and bigger life changes. Jessica speaks English and practices from Georgia with 14 years of experience.
Her sessions begin by listening to what matters most to the person sitting across from her. She uses a warm, interactive style that lets clients set the pace and focus.
How Jessica works
The work often centers on building clear, usable skills for coping with worry, mood shifts, grief, or anger. Jessica blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered techniques to keep sessions grounded in the client's goals.
Cognitive behavioral methods help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Emotionally-focused and mindfulness strategies support emotion awareness and regulation. She also brings solution-focused ideas and coaching to tackle specific problems like parenting stress, communication issues, or life transitions.
These tools are used to create short-term plans and longer-term strategies based on the client’s priorities. Jessica’s background includes training in psychology and counseling and a history of working with a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, trauma and abuse, eating and body-image issues, and relationship problems.
Her aim is to help people develop practical habits and responses they can use after sessions end.
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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical approaches for online help
Jessica uses client-centered work to start sessions by focusing on what the person wants to change. This approach relies on listening, clarifying goals, and letting the client guide the pace of work. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to sort priorities and make plans.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another core approach. It looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to test new behaviors. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that keep problems going.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice, name, and work with strong feelings so they can respond differently in relationships or stressful moments. It supports deeper emotion awareness alongside practical skill-building.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying short-term solution-focused steps, deeper emotion work, or a mix of approaches over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options let people fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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