About Jessica
Jessica Haywood is a licensed clinical social worker in California with sixteen years of practice. She focuses on grief, self esteem, career challenges, depression, and coping with life changes. Jessica favors an encouraging, down-to-earth approach and often begins with a video or phone conversation to get to know a person.
She views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions emphasize practical steps that a person can try between meetings, not only talk.
Background and approach
Jessica uses clear tools to address motivation, confidence, and workplace concerns. Jessica also supports people facing illness, chronic pain, and the emotional fallout of big life shifts. She helps with feelings of abandonment, guilt, shame, and isolation.
Communication difficulties and questions about life purpose are also common topics. Her work blends structured methods and gentle coaching. Techniques include skills for managing intense emotions, thinking patterns that affect mood, and brief planning to move toward goals.
She encourages small, realistic changes that add up over time. Jessica holds a Master of Social Work from The Florida State University College of Social Work and practices as an LCSW. She keeps appointments flexible and typically starts with video or audio to establish a comfortable way of working together.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Jessica commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to help manage stress, stay grounded, and notice patterns without getting swept up in them.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These are practical tools people can use when emotions feel overwhelming or when conflicts and anxiety interfere with work or personal life. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a shared process; the therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is often used for longer check-ins, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing feedback and short updates between scheduled sessions. This range makes it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, health, or family demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English