About Jessica
Jessica Manley is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictive behaviors. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence for people facing relationship strain, intimacy questions, career stress, or the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her focus includes concerns like ADHD, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood issues, and struggles with self-esteem.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make sense of what’s happening now and to find practical steps forward. She blends talk-based discovery with tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. People often leave with clearer choices and a plan for small changes.
Jessica draws on client-centered work to keep sessions focused on each person’s values and goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns that increase anxiety or low mood, and solution-focused ideas to set achievable short-term goals. Motivational interviewing supports people trying to change substance use or other habits.
With two decades of practice, she brings steady experience to complex cases like co-occurring addiction and mood disorders, chronic illness, and relationship conflict. Jessica pays attention to attachment history and communication patterns that repeat across relationships. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Fees vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.
Approaches that guide online work
Jessica uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person’s values and priorities. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people shape goals that feel meaningful and doable.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, and patterns that affect relationships and self-esteem. Motivational interviewing is part of her work when people want to change habits like substance use; it helps clarify personal motivation and build small steps toward change.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Jessica will talk with the client about what matters most, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needs change. The goal is to match techniques to the person rather than force a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping focus on progress and practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English