- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- NH Psychologist
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Jessica
Jessica Stern is a New Hampshire psychologist who helps parents and individuals facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and brings three decades of experience to conversations about grief, trauma, and life changes. Jessica writes treatment goals together with each person so therapy fits real life and real schedules.
Clients can expect direct, practical work that mixes talk, skill building, and gentle reflection. Sessions often focus on clearer communication, managing panic and anxiety, and coping with major life events like health crises or family transitions.
Background and approach
She uses structured tools alongside deeper exploration of patterns that repeat across relationships. Her background includes long experience with multicultural and bilingual communities in New Hampshire. Over thirty years she has supported people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, blended family challenges, and immigration-related stress.
That experience informs a straightforward style that keeps goals in view. Jessica combines cognitive-behavioral methods with psychodynamic ideas, mindfulness practices, and trauma-focused techniques. She also uses EMDR when appropriate to help process traumatic memories.
The work aims to reduce symptoms and build skills for handling future challenges. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients are accepted and the therapist uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connects people to a session rhythm that fits their life.
What Jessica works with
Everything Jessica lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Jessica helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jessica lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Jessica Uses Approaches Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections. Online sessions using this approach look at communication habits and emotional responses to help people feel steadier in relationships and in parenting roles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions this often means short exercises, homework, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety, panic attacks, or low mood.
EMDR, an approach used for trauma, helps process distressing memories so they have less emotional charge. When used online, sessions are paced carefully and combined with grounding strategies to manage strong reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, what has helped in the past, and practical constraints like schedule or comfort with video. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats provide flexibility for busy parents and adults. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical within everyday life.
Questions people ask about Jessica
What kinds of problems does Jessica address?
Jessica helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and career and life transitions.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style blends practical skill work with reflective discussion. She sets clear goals and uses tools to change unhelpful patterns while exploring underlying relationship themes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has thirty years of experience working as a psychologist and life coach with a wide range of concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a New Hampshire Psychologist, credential listed as NH Psychologist 937, and practices from New Hampshire.
Can sessions be done in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she has longstanding experience with bilingual and bicultural clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to start therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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