Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Jessica works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Massachusetts
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Jessica
Jessica Gerson is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and many everyday struggles. She brings 12 years of experience as a psychotherapist and offers practical support for depression, parenting challenges, relationship and family concerns, and issues around sexuality and gender identity. Jessica draws on straightforward, hands-on work in sessions.
She listens first and then helps people build a toolbox of skills they can use outside of therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs and goals. Her approach blends evidence-based techniques and thoughtful exploration of life patterns. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and increase flexibility, and Client-Centered methods to keep the person’s perspective central.
Jessica also brings psychodynamic ideas into the work to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She uses solution-focused strategies for people who want quick, practical steps to try right away. This mix supports problems from sleep troubles and grief to ADHD, chronic illness, and intimacy questions.
Based in Massachusetts, Jessica works in English and tailors plans to each person’s situation. Her goal is to help people feel more capable managing emotions, improving relationships, and handling life changes with clearer tools and goals.
What Jessica works with
Everything Jessica lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Jessica's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jessica lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Jessica’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take actions that match those values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to practice noticing thoughts, choosing actions, and setting simple behavioral goals that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. In remote sessions CBT tools like activity scheduling, thought records, and behavioral experiments can be taught and tracked between visits to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage anger.Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist will review your goals and preferences, try methods that feel useful, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative stance aims to match techniques to your situation rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls let you work face-to-face when visual cues help, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be used for focused check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection and shorter updates. These options make it easier to fit work into a day, try brief skills practice, or maintain steady contact between sessions.
Questions people ask about Jessica
What concerns does Jessica help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, parenting and relationship problems, trauma and grief, sleep issues, self-esteem and career concerns, ADHD, and related challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens closely and helps clients build concrete skills to use between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Jessica has 12 years of experience working as a psychotherapist with a variety of concerns and client needs.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is listed as MA LICSW and LA LCSW and practices from Massachusetts.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer online?
Jessica provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does the subscription and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.