About Jess
Jess Quessenberry welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. Jess writes in a plain, down-to-earth way and aims to make the first steps feel less scary.
Background and approach
As a licensed marriage and family therapist, Jess listens without judgment and helps people find practical next steps. Jess keeps sessions relaxed and often uses gentle humor to ease tension.
Conversations focus on what matters now - feelings, relationships, coping with stress, and daily struggles. The tone is straightforward and warm, and clients can use whatever language feels natural to them.
Over eight years of practice, Jess has helped people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and issues around identity and intimacy. Jess works with concerns like ADHD, bipolar mood shifts, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and career stress.
Attachment and family-of-origin patterns are common topics in sessions. Therapeutic choices lean toward listening closely, shaping small behavioral changes, and using mindfulness and narrative tools to shift unhelpful stories people tell themselves.
Jess also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that repeat across relationships. Sessions emphasize clear goals and doable steps between meetings.
Jess practices in California and holds the LMFT credential, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Sessions are offered in English and are available in remote formats.
The focus is on practical support, steady guidance, and helping people rebuild confidence in everyday life.
How Jess Uses Talk, Tools, and Mindfulness Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and shaping the work around each person's needs. Jess uses this approach to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients choose what to focus on and set their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Jess uses CBT to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to build small, practical changes that reduce anxiety or low mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to steady attention and reduce reactivity. These techniques are used to manage stress, ground during strong emotions, and improve focus for people with ADHD or trauma histories.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jess discusses goals and preferences in early sessions, checks in about what helps, and adjusts methods over time so the work fits the client's life.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed, live chat suits brief focused exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, California
- Languages
- English