About Jessica
Dr. Jessica Winn helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life transitions.
Background and approach
She writes short, direct plans with clients and focuses on small steps that build confidence. Jessica uses clear language so worried parents can understand what comes next.
She brings 19 years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential. Her background includes work in schools, group homes, substance use rehabilitation clinics, and partial hospitalization programs.
She has also taught at the university level and worked as a clinical supervisor. In sessions she combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered care and cognitive-behavioral tools.
That means she pays attention to how relationships shape behavior, listens without judgment, and helps people test practical changes between sessions. For trauma-related concerns she also draws on emotionally focused and existential approaches when they fit the person’s goals.
Her practice supports people dealing with parenting stress, addiction, grief, mood challenges such as depression and bipolar concerns, ADHD, and struggles with self-worth and body image. She also addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, and first responder stress.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The therapist works collaboratively to set goals and adapts techniques to match each person’s daily life and responsibilities.
How online approaches and methods fit your needs
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand recurring patterns with partners, parents, or caregivers and learn different ways to connect and respond.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps people find their own solutions to problems like low self-esteem or life transitions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and problems like procrastination or angry reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that seem to fit, and adjust over time based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to day-to-day life and responsibilities.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a walk-and-talk check-in. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for short updates, quick coping ideas, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around parenting, work, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, California
- Languages
- English