About Jessica
Jessica Lareau welcomes people who are ready to address struggles like depression, addiction, grief, and relationship strain. She frames work around practical steps people can use right away. Jessica speaks plainly and helps clients identify strengths to move forward.
She draws on 14 years of clinical experience in Massachusetts as a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. Sessions focus on clear goals and small changes that add up. She supports people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, caregiver burden, and the emotional impact of life transitions.
How Jessica works
Jessica uses several evidence-informed approaches to match what each person needs. She brings tools from cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thoughts. She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people live by their values even when feelings are difficult.
For people facing substance use, codependency, or relapse risk, she applies motivational interviewing techniques to build commitment to change. Dialectical skills are offered for emotion regulation and stronger communication. Psychodynamic ideas inform deeper patterns when clients want to understand recurring life themes.
Practical concerns are central in her work. Jessica helps with blended family issues, parenting strain, divorce and separation, and first responder stress. She also supports people coping with eating-related problems, bipolar mood challenges, and feelings of emptiness or shame.
Her approach is collaborative, down-to-earth, and focused on what helps in daily life.
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.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for motivation, life transitions, and coping with persistent sadness or emptiness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills, which can be especially helpful for people struggling with intense mood shifts, relationship conflicts, or self-destructive patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit brief updates, coaching-style support, or check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, caregiving, or travel while using the therapist's chosen approaches.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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