About Jessica
Jessica Bolin Edwards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee. She brings eight years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and the everyday stress of life changes. She works in a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Sessions aim to set clear goals and break those goals into manageable actions. Jessica avoids stigmatizing labels and treats each person with respect and compassion.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in residential settings, mobile crisis teams, outpatient clinics, and in-home care. That variety gave her experience with a wide range of needs and levels of difficulty. She has particular familiarity with trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care issues, and attachment concerns.
Jessica uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Cognitive behavioral techniques are combined with client-centered conversation, mindfulness skills, and motivational interviewing when helpful. She also brings experience with EMDR for people processing significant traumatic memories.
People who contact her typically want straightforward help for problems like low self-esteem, parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, ADHD-related struggles, or compassion fatigue. Sessions focus on what is most important to the individual and work toward clear, achievable changes.
She invites anyone ready to take a step toward a better day-to-day life to begin the process and work collaboratively on realistic plans for growth.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening deeply and building a trusting connection, helping people feel heard while they name what matters most and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it works well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) assists people processing traumatic memories by using guided bilateral stimulation alongside talk work to reduce distress and change how memories are stored.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and history, then suggest methods to try. Together they will track what helps and adjust the plan as needed so the work stays focused and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make contact more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone work can fit into a break or when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can be used for brief check-ins or steady support between meetings. These options aim to make it easier to maintain consistent care while fitting therapy into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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