About Jessica
Jessica Barnes is an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana - with 14 years of experience in clinical, home-based, crisis management, and telehealth settings. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, manage mood, and improve relationships. Her tone is direct and supportive for someone feeling overwhelmed by life changes.
Jessica draws on several therapy styles to fit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to untangle unhelpful thoughts. She also brings in skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and from client-centered work to make space for each person’s perspective. Her background includes work with depression, anxiety, mood and personality concerns, anger management, addictions, trauma, and grief.
She has experience addressing relationship and family conflict, intimacy and communication problems, parenting strain, and issues tied to adoption or separation. Jessica also supports people dealing with bipolar disorder, ADHD, and body image or self-esteem struggles. In sessions she helps people name their strengths and set clear, manageable goals.
She offers practical strategies for sleeping better, reducing anxiety, coping with loss, and handling life transitions. Conversations are intended to feel collaborative and focused on what will make daily life more manageable. Jessica provides care through a mix of in-person-informed approaches and telehealth practices.
She encourages anyone ready to take a next step to use the platform process to match and schedule a first session.
Approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward values-based actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try first. The plan can change as progress is made and different issues come up, keeping the work collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging help with quick support between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options allow consistent care while adapting to schedules and communication styles.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English