About Jessica
Jessica Steinmetz is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, low motivation, and depression. She brings a calm, respectful manner and focuses on practical steps people can take right away. Jessica has 10 years of experience working with individuals struggling with substance, alcohol, and gambling addiction.
She also supports people dealing with codependency, impulsivity, social anxiety, and relationship or communication problems. Her work often addresses self-esteem, isolation, money worries, and coping with life changes.
How Jessica works
Her approach centers on listening first. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and builds goals together. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps.
Techniques come from client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral ideas, and motivational interviewing. In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, set realistic goals, and find motivation to change. She offers guidance for smoking and vaping cessation and for managing process addictions such as porn, exercise, or gambling.
Practical strategies and steady support are priorities. Jessica holds licenses in New York as an LMHC and in New Jersey as an LPC. She offers care in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
Jessica lists 3 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.
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Jessica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building goals together. The therapist offers an accepting space and follows the person’s lead to find what matters most, which is helpful for stress, low motivation, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical and skill-based, often used for anxiety, depression, and some addiction-related behaviors.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It’s useful when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about quitting substances, changing habits, or tackling difficult life shifts.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying different methods and adjusting as progress happens.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier fitting of therapy into a busy day. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice new skills in everyday life.
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A practical next step
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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