About Jessica
Jessica Katz helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and other life changes. She has 21 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor, and she practices from Utah. Jessica speaks English and aims for a respectful, steady approach that meets people where they are.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She uses practical conversations and focused techniques to build skills people can use between sessions.
How Jessica works
Sessions often include exploring patterns, practicing coping strategies, and working through painful memories at a pace the client controls. Jessica draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used when addressing anxiety, mood, and behavior changes. For trauma work she includes eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, offering a structured way to reduce distress tied to difficult memories. She also incorporates existential themes when people are wrestling with meaning, identity, or major life decisions.
Her background spans many concerns including addiction, ADHD, eating and body image issues, caregiver stress, intimacy-related challenges, abandonment and adoption topics, communication and codependency struggles, and problems around divorce or blended families. Jessica aims to teach skills so people can manage challenges and increasingly lead their own healing journey. She describes therapy as a cooperative process where therapist and client alternate leading.
That approach emphasizes patience, gradual skill building, and kindness toward oneself during the work.
Jessica lists 10 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
How Jessica’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. Online work can help people notice patterns in their relationships and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a structured way to reduce distress tied to traumatic memories and can be adapted for remote sessions with clear pacing and preparation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made or goals shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into a busy day and to use therapy in moments between appointments. These options help people keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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