About Jessica
Jessica Owen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 11 years of experience helping people through difficult life seasons. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction, and she helps people who are coping with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and major life changes.
Jessica uses a person-centered way of working that keeps the client in the lead. She listens first, then helps people name what they need and find workable steps forward.
How Jessica works
Sessions often include concrete coping skills, problem-solving, and goal-focused planning so people can feel steadier day to day. Her toolkit includes cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on mindfulness to help people manage strong emotions and stay present.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used when someone wants support making changes or finding fast, practical solutions. Jessica has worked with concerns such as postpartum depression, panic attacks, substance use, domestic violence, and sexual assault and abuse in addition to broader issues like low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and codependency.
She aims to tailor each session to the person in front of her rather than offering a one-size-fits-all plan. People who choose Jessica can expect a calm, respectful space to sort through priorities, practice new skills, and build on existing strengths. She encourages collaboration so clients can leave sessions with clear next steps and realistic ways to cope between meetings.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead, creating space for the client to name their needs and goals. This approach helps people feel heard and encourages them to discover their own next steps, which works well in conversation-based video or phone sessions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify patterns of thought that fuel anxiety or depression and then practice new thinking and behavior strategies. CBT is well suited to online work because it uses concrete exercises and homework that can be reviewed over video, phone, or messaging.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity to stress and strong emotions. These short, practice-based skills are easy to introduce and reinforce through chat, text, or brief video check-ins.
Jessica will collaborate with each person to find the best mix of approaches for their situation and goals. Together they will try methods, watch how they land, and adjust the plan when needed so the work fits the person's life and preferences.
Online formats offer practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can fit short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue steady work across time and distance.
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