About Jessica
Jessica Paletta is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of experience offering practical, down-to-earth support. She holds the LCSW and CSW credentials and practices from Utah. She welcomes straightforward conversations and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and depression.
Jessica has a history of helping parents caring for children with developmental delays and disabilities. She also supports people facing maternal mental health concerns, parenting stress, trauma, grief, and addiction-related struggles.
How Jessica works
Her experience includes working with sleep problems, anger, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem difficulties. She is pursuing a doctorate in Behavioral Health at Arizona State University, which informs her use of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Jessica combines current research with practical strategies that fit everyday life.
Her goal is to make therapy useful and relevant to each person's situation. Her approach centers on respect and collaboration. She works with clients to build a plan that matches their goals and values.
Sessions tend to focus on clear tools, realistic steps, and steady progress toward change. Jessica aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard things. She focuses on helping clients gain skills, insight, and confidence to manage life changes and ongoing challenges.
The work is practical, paced to the client's needs, and rooted in real-world concerns.
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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches and online options
Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. One common approach she draws on focuses on practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavioral strategies to reduce overwhelm. Another helpful method addresses parenting and attachment concerns by improving communication, setting routines, and building predictable responses that support relationship stability.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica works with clients to identify goals, tries techniques that fit each person's situation, and adjusts the plan based on what is most helpful. She encourages open feedback so the work evolves with the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits in her practice. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, on-the-go support between sessions or for people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity across changing schedules.
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