About Jessica
Jessica Hodges welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship struggles. She is a Kansas-licensed clinical social worker with 10 years of experience. Jessica writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person who reaches out.
She focuses on helping clients handle trauma and abuse, parenting strain, mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms, and issues tied to identity and intimacy. Jessica also supports people facing addiction, eating or sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
How Jessica works
She pays attention to attachment and family of origin concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and neurodiversity topics such as autism and Asperger syndrome. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s perspective. She also uses elements of attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior approaches, and motivational interviewing.
Those tools are used in everyday language to practice new ways of thinking and coping. Jessica aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations often include clear strategies, small behavioral steps, and moment-to-moment problem solving.
She helps people set realistic goals and build skills they can use between meetings. Her background includes a decade of clinical practice in Kansas. She offers therapy by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Sessions are scheduled after a short matching questionnaire and selection of the Start Therapy option.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LSCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Jessica blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to make sessions practical and focused. Client-centered therapy means conversations start with the person’s concerns and goals, and the therapist follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarity. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, eating or sleeping problems, and coping with life changes.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect present struggles. That perspective helps when dealing with intimacy issues, abandonment worries, family of origin concerns, or blended family dynamics. Deciding which approach to use is collaborative; Jessica works with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level rather than relying on one set method.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for more in-depth work and visual cues, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth, live chat and text work well for short check-ins, skill-building, or when typing feels easier. These options allow scheduling around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical skill practice and steady progress with a licensed professional.
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