Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
How Jessica works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Years in practice
- 23
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Jessica
Jessica Willis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with people who are overwhelmed by stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her style is calm and practical, focused on helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Jessica makes room for each person to tell their story without judgment. She listens for patterns in relationships, mood, and behavior, then helps people try small, useful changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning new skills for managing intense emotions and improving daily routines like sleep and eating. Her practice uses several evidence-informed approaches to match what a person needs. She blends strategies from cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused listening.
The goal is to build skills that fit into everyday life and help reduce reactivity, including around anger and relationship stress. Jessica also draws on techniques from dialectical behavior work and client-centered care to support emotional regulation and self-understanding. That combination can help with addictions, grief, caregiver stress, and parenting strain.
She pays attention to trauma, attachment history, and broader challenges such as chronic illness or career change. If someone wants to begin, Jessica guides them through a short intake and collaborates on treatment goals. The focus is practical: feel steadier day to day, manage strong feelings more easily, and improve the quality of important relationships.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jessica lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-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 work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while acting toward what matters most. It can help with anxiety, depression, and persistent anger by shifting focus to values and small committed steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, behaviors, and routines and teaches practical exercises to break unhelpful cycles. It is often useful for stress, sleep and eating problems, and mood changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns from early relationships and how they affect current emotional responses. It helps people understand relationship triggers and build healthier ways of connecting.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that fit their goals, pace, and preferences. Over a few sessions they adjust the plan based on what helps most, combining skills training, values work, and relational insight as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or families juggling busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into work, caregiving, and daily life while still accessing licensed professionals and focused therapeutic support.
Questions people ask about Jessica
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, self-esteem, sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, and life changes among other concerns.
What is her general approach in therapy?
Her work mixes acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral tools, attachment-based listening, dialectical behavior strategies, and client-centered care to fit each person's needs and goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 23 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor working with a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is she located and what are her credentials?
She practices in Mississippi and holds an MS LPC, which is listed as her professional credential.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are costs and the first steps handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.