About Jessica
Jessica Grayer-Brumfield brings a client-centered lens to her clinical work, combining practical strategies with empathic listening to help people navigate stress, mood concerns, trauma, and life transitions.
Background and approach
As a licensed social worker holding LCSW and LISW credentials, she draws on ten years of experience to tailor treatment plans that reflect each person's priorities and pace. Jessica emphasizes collaboration, helping clients learn coping skills, manage anxiety and depression, and address issues such as grief, parenting challenges, relationship strains, and workplace stress.
Her approach blends evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness with psychodynamic exploration and motivational interviewing when helpful. This mix allows for concrete skill-building alongside deeper reflection about patterns, beliefs, and past experiences that influence current functioning.
Jessica also works with concerns including bipolar mood management, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and a range of women's health and family-related topics such as postpartum matters, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and domestic violence. Located in Illinois, she aims to create a nonjudgmental atmosphere where goals are set collaboratively and progress reflects the effort invested.
Jessica supports clients in identifying strengths, reducing symptoms, and moving toward meaningful, sustainable change.
Approaches and Online Therapy Options
Jessica often uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at the client's own pace to clarify goals and build on strengths. This approach is useful for people seeking support with stress, relationship issues, and life transitions because it centers the person's values and choices.She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a practical method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches skills to change patterns of thinking and behavior. CBT is commonly applied to anxiety, depression, mood dysregulation, and coping with change. Mindfulness therapy is another tool she uses to cultivate present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity in situations tied to stress, grief, or trauma.
Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process in therapy. The therapist will work with clients to determine which combination of methods best fits their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow people to engage in therapy from environments that feel comfortable for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Iowa
- Languages
- English