About Jessica
Jessica Grayer-Brumfield is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical, person-centered therapy. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and the strain of major life changes. Her approach aims to help clients learn skills and make steady progress at a comfortable pace.
She draws on client-centered work to build a trusting space where the client sets goals and guides the pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try concrete tools that can reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help calm the body and increase focus in everyday moments. Jessica brings ten years of experience to sessions and uses elements of motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change. Psychodynamic ideas sometimes inform conversations about patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices.
These tools are selected to match each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, practicing new strategies, and checking what works between meetings. She can help with parenting concerns, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care matters, postpartum issues, anger, self-esteem, ADHD-related challenges, and workplace or career stress.
Jessica is licensed in Illinois as LCSW and also holds an LISW credential. She offers services in English and provides a collaborative, down-to-earth style for people ready to work toward practical change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist creates a supportive atmosphere where goals and timing come from the person in the room, which works well over video, phone, or messaging. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches straightforward skills to test thoughts and change behaviors, such as mood tracking or brief experiments between sessions; those exercises can be shared and practiced across remote formats. Mindfulness Therapy offers short attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus, which can be done during video sessions or as audio-guided exercises sent between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That may mean trying CBT tools for a few weeks, adding mindfulness practices, or exploring deeper patterns when helpful; adjustments happen based on what is useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work when video is difficult. Live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between sessions or when a shorter touchpoint is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Iowa
- Languages
- English