About Jessica
Jessica Colocho is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Hawaii. She brings 12 years of experience helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, anger, and life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to offer clear, practical support when things feel overwhelming.
Jessica focuses on making the first steps feel manageable. She listens without judgment and works with each person to set short-term goals that meet real needs.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods, including acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive-behavioral tools, and client-centered care. She adapts techniques to the issue at hand, whether that is coping with trauma, relationship stress, or problems with substance use.
Jessica also addresses concerns like parenting strain, communication problems, forgiveness, and guilt. She has additional experience with first responder issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, immigration-related stress, and gender dysphoria. Her work often includes practical steps for rebuilding routines and improving sleep.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and skill-building may find her style helpful. She aims to support each person’s goals with patience and respect, helping them move toward greater balance and purpose.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then move toward actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and making big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep disruption. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental listening stance, helping people feel heard while they decide what changes matter most.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and practical needs, and then try techniques that fit those priorities. Over time they adjust the work based on what helps most, mixing methods when that makes sense.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or quick emotional support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English, Spanish