About Jessica
Jessica Otton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida. She brings nine years of clinical experience and a background that includes medical social work, hospice care, and substance abuse settings. Jessica aims to make the decision to seek help feel less overwhelming for people who reach out.
She earned both her Bachelor and Master of Social Work degrees from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2011. Much of her work has been in medical settings, and she spent eight years supporting people through hospice care in inpatient, home, and nursing home environments.
Background and approach
That experience shaped her approach to grief, end-of-life issues, and caregiver stress. Jessica also has experience in addiction services, including work with court-mandated and voluntary clients. She has supported people facing depression, anxiety and stress, relationship and family problems, and life changes.
Her additional focus areas include chronic illness, codependency, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she uses a strengths-based stance and practical techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. She emphasizes building a trusting working relationship and encourages clear, realistic goals.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on steps people can use between meetings. Jessica works with straightforward, everyday language and aims to make therapy feel accessible. She helps people talk through grief, manage anxiety, address substance use concerns, and cope with the strain of caregiving and aging-related challenges.
Her style is steady, goal-oriented, and grounded in real-life needs.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Jessica commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in daily routines. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. She also applies solution-focused techniques that concentrate on small, achievable steps and clear goals to move forward from a current problem.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That choice evolves over time as progress and new needs become clear.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on workable steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English