About Jessica
Dr. Jessica Dennis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 11 years of experience. She offers a calm, practical style and focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD.
Her work is straightforward and aimed at helping people manage daily challenges and life changes. She emphasizes clear communication and a nonjudgmental space. Sessions concentrate on identifying what feels most urgent, building coping strategies, and setting realistic steps that fit a client's routine.
Background and approach
Jessica also supports people facing career stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout from helping professions. Her background includes more than a decade of clinical work in settings that involved professional coaching and support for first responder issues. That experience shapes how she helps people balance work demands with mental well-being.
She also pays attention to multicultural factors and the effects of prejudice and discrimination on stress and identity. Jessica usually offers live chat messaging for visits and often schedules sessions in the evenings. She can sometimes set regular daytime chat appointments if needed and is open to discussing scheduling preferences.
The format focuses on concise, focused conversations and practical follow-up. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make signing up simple. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire, then pick times that work with her schedule.
This straightforward beginning helps clarify goals and next steps before regular sessions start.
How Jessica Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Jessica draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping strategies for anxiety and ADHD-related difficulties, such as breaking tasks into steps and building routines to improve focus and follow-through. Another approach centers on managing stress and compassion fatigue by identifying burnout signs and creating self-care and boundary-setting plans that fit a person's work life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with clients to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels useful. Together clients and Jessica decide which techniques to prioritize and how to apply them between sessions.
Online therapy with her uses live chat messaging as the main session format. Chat sessions are flexible and can be shorter check-ins or longer scheduled conversations, which can make it easier to fit therapy into busy workdays or evening routines. Video calls, phone sessions, or text-based messaging are alternative formats available through the broader service, offering options for those who prefer speaking or using less bandwidth. The online format supports consistent follow-up, quick progress checks, and accessible scheduling across different time windows.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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