About Jessica
Dr. Jessica Winn helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life changes. She offers a calm, direct approach aimed at improving day-to-day coping, building self-esteem, and addressing concerns like addiction, grief, and trauma.
Her tone is practical and grounded, focused on clear steps people can take between sessions. She draws on nearly two decades of clinical experience and holds the LMFT credential, which she uses to inform therapy for adults.
How Jessica works
Sessions focus on what feels most urgent to the client and on small, measurable changes that add up over time. Expect straightforward conversation about patterns, emotions, and goals. Her background includes work across many treatment settings, including rehabilitation clinics, schools, group homes, and partial hospitalization programs.
That variety shaped a flexible style that adapts to different life situations and stressors. She has also supervised clinicians and taught at the university level for several years. Therapeutic work often looks at attachment and relationship patterns, and how those patterns affect daily behavior and emotional responses.
Cognitive skills and emotion-focused techniques are used together to change unhelpful thoughts and to deepen emotional awareness. People seeking help for parenting strain, career stress, bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, eating or sleeping problems, and intimacy-related issues can expect practical tools and clear goals. Therapy is collaborative, with the client and therapist deciding which steps to try next.
Jessica lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of connecting and responding in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills. In remote sessions clients often work on brief exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments between meetings to test what changes help most.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online formats offer flexibility for different situations. Video calls are useful for full sessions that include face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, quick coaching, or when updating progress between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable.
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