About Jessica
Jessica Orndoff, MD, LCSW-C, helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, mood challenges, and ADHD find clearer footing. She takes a calm and direct approach that aims to make therapy understandable and useful. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings.
Jessica speaks plainly and listens closely so people feel heard from the first contact. She blends several therapy styles to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness skills are used to manage intense emotions and build day-to-day coping tools. Trauma-focused techniques are available for those dealing with past hurt. Jessica has worked in clinical social work for 11 years and maintains a practice in Maryland.
She emphasizes collaboration - clients set goals and she suggests strategies and practices to reach them. Her approach is nonjudgmental and grounded in social work values like respect and dignity. Practical concerns such as sleep, parenting strain, career stress, and relationship issues are commonly addressed.
She also supports people with bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, grief, and challenges related to autism or young adult transitions. Work in sessions often includes skill-building, short-term problem solving, and planning for change. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How Jessica’s Approaches Work Online
Jessica often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that worsen mood or anxiety. CBT is practical and problem-focused, and it often involves simple exercises to try between sessions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness. DBT skills teach ways to manage intense emotions and improve coping, while mindfulness practices help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away. These methods are useful for emotional regulation, stress, and ADHD-related overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist and client discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan over time. Jessica aims to match techniques to what each person needs and prefers, and she invites regular feedback so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets clients work face to face from different places. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when video would be distracting. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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