About Jessica
Jessica Eddins is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She brings seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship and family challenges, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She uses straightforward talk, gentle guidance, and tools drawn from cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
Sessions often include small, doable steps like journaling, grounded breathing, and worksheets that help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Jessica favors a collaborative pace so clients feel ready before tackling heavier topics. Her background includes work with substance use and recovery support alongside broader mental health concerns. That experience informs how she addresses issues such as codependency, impulsivity, and co-occurring challenges.
She also helps with life changes like divorce, caregiving strain, financial stress, and isolation. In therapy she listens for practical goals and helps shape a plan to reach them. Motivational interviewing techniques support people who want to change but feel stuck, while narrative strategies can help reframe painful experiences and build new stories about identity and strength.
Jessica holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and a Licensed Professional Counselor credential and practices in Virginia. She works in a down-to-earth way that aims to make therapy feel doable and relevant to everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and shaping sessions around each person's goals and concerns. It helps when someone needs a steady, respectful space to sort out feelings and make decisions. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and habits that clients want to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so clients stay involved in choosing their path forward.
Online formats make regular care easier to fit into life. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to schedule during a work break. Live chat or text messaging let clients check in, work through short exercises, or keep momentum between longer appointments. These options support flexibility while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English