About Jessica
Jessica Saxton is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She has ten years of professional experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the shifts life brings. She helps people who are grieving loss and those coping with compassion fatigue or addiction.
Jessica also supports people facing career stress, bipolar disorder, low self-esteem, and chronic health challenges. Her work includes issues such as obsessive thoughts, seasonal mood shifts, and questions about life purpose.
Background and approach
Jessica uses straightforward conversations to create a plan that fits each person. She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and motivational methods to build daily skills. Sessions aim to identify small changes that make day-to-day life easier and more meaningful.
Her style is respectful and down-to-earth. She focuses on practical steps and real-world coping tools rather than complicated jargon. Jessica invites people to move at a comfortable pace while working toward clearer goals.
People who choose her often want a blend of skill-building and reflective talk. She will adapt the pace and techniques to match someone’s needs and preferences. The aim is steady progress toward feeling more capable and connected to what matters.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Jessica commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. CBT often focuses on small, practical changes that reduce anxiety or lift mood over time.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help with stress and emotional regulation. These practices teach simple ways to return attention to the present moment and to respond more calmly to difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, writing through thoughts, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English