About Jessica
Dr. Jessica Winn is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nearly two decades of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, and ADHD.
She uses an approachable style and focuses on clear, practical steps people can try between sessions. Her background includes a mix of clinical work and teaching. She has worked in schools, group homes, substance use rehabilitation clinics, and partial hospitalization programs.
Background and approach
She also served as a clinical supervisor and spent several years teaching behavioral sciences at the university level. In sessions she draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice thinking and behavior habits and test new ways of coping.
Emotionally focused methods guide conversations about connection and closeness in relationships. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, goal-focused plans, and practical skills to manage day-to-day life. Dr.
Winn often blends approaches to match what a person brings into the room, paying attention to emotion, thought patterns, and relationship dynamics. She works with concerns such as parenting strain, grief, trauma and abuse, career stress, body image, and substance use issues. Dr.
Winn practices in Virginia and provides services in English.
How different approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns of closeness and trust. Online sessions can help identify repeating interaction styles and offer new ways to respond in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. In virtual sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and practice short exercises between meetings.Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. That process is collaborative and can change as needs evolve, so sessions often blend techniques rather than sticking to a single model.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat or text can be helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter touchpoint fits into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible for school schedules, work hours, and caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, California
- Languages
- English
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