About Jessica
Jessica Hrdlicka uses a client-centered approach to help people work through hard periods. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of clinical experience in Illinois. Jessica meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can use day to day.
She has worked in schools, community settings, and independent practice. That background shaped how she supports people with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and stress.
Background and approach
Jessica also helps people managing bipolar disorder, ADHD, and mood or panic concerns. Jessica provides direct, hands-on support for issues like grief, body image and eating struggles, chronic pain and illness, and parenting challenges. She also draws on approaches useful for communication problems, family concerns, and life changes.
Her work includes attention to self-harm, postpartum depression, and recovery from sexual assault and abuse. Her sessions blend straightforward conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, narrative, and emotionally focused approaches. She helps clients build coping strategies, practice self-love, and improve communication.
Sessions focus on small, doable changes rather than abstract ideas. Jessica aims to tailor each plan to the person in front of her. She emphasizes practical skills and personal strengths.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and more confidence handling life’s ups and downs.
How Jessica's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and experiences. It involves open, listening-based sessions where the therapist reflects what the client says and helps identify strengths. This approach can help with self-esteem, stress, relationship struggles, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for panic, depression, and everyday stressors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. Together they set goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video suits fuller conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat works well for shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English