- Years in practice
- 23
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Jessica
Jessica Willis is a licensed professional counselor with 23 years of experience helping people navigate major life transitions and everyday stress. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and practical ways to cope when emotions feel overwhelming. Her work often focuses on depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and relationship challenges.
She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction concerns, anger, sleep and eating issues, and parenting stress. Jessica helps clients sort through career worries, self-esteem struggles, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Jessica uses approaches that emphasize the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. She blends methods to build skills for managing distress, increase emotional awareness, and strengthen healthy patterns of relating. Sessions include straightforward tools and opportunities to reflect on what’s working and what needs to change.
People who come to her for parenting concerns find practical strategies they can try between meetings. She also supports those facing abandonment, attachment issues, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and other layered problems that affect daily life. Jessica practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English.
Her goal is to offer clear, compassionate guidance so people can feel steadier and more capable as they move forward.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jessica lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused 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.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches values-based action so clients can make choices that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying a technique for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people have a more traditional face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can help keep progress going between longer sessions and fit into busy days.
Questions people ask about Jessica
What concerns does Jessica address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, and career and life changes.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental with a focus on practical skills and emotional understanding. She combines talking and skill-building to help people change unhelpful patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 23 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an MS and is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Mississippi.
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match 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.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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