About Jessica
Jessica Manley is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, grief, and challenges related to ADHD. Her way of working is direct and compassionate, aiming to make each session practical and understandable.
She spends time listening first, so clients feel heard and understood. Sessions focus on what is most pressing, with short-term goals that can be checked each week.
Background and approach
Jessica adapts tools to fit daily life rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions. Her background blends several therapy approaches that guide how she responds to problems. Jessica draws on client-centered techniques to keep the work grounded in each person’s priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit for people facing addiction or who are unsure about change. Solution-focused work helps when people want clear, concrete steps to move forward.
Her training as a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, underpins two decades of practice. Jessica aims to create an atmosphere of respect and patience. She talks openly about options and works with clients to pick methods that feel right.
The focus is on building coping skills, improving communication, and helping people manage life changes practically and steadily.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. It creates a space where the person sets the goals and the therapist reflects and clarifies what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to shift patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing attention or impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and what methods feel most useful. Together they choose strategies and adjust them as progress is made, making the course of therapy collaborative rather than fixed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing accountability, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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