About Jessica
Jessica McDaniel brings a collaborative, skills-focused approach to psychotherapy that centers on practical change and personal growth. She uses evidence-based methods to help clients learn tools for managing stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and the ripple effects of trauma and grief.
Background and approach
Jessica emphasizes checking progress together and helping clients build sustainable strategies for coping with life transitions, career concerns, and challenges like eating, sleeping, and intimacy-related issues. With 17 years of experience in diverse clinical settings, Jessica holds LPC and LCPC credentials and works from an outcome-oriented perspective that blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies.
She teaches relaxation and stress-relief practices alongside structured therapeutic work, aiming to reduce worry, improve emotion regulation, and support clients in meeting short- and long-term goals. Jessica’s style is encouraging and practical, focusing on what clients want to change and how to get there step by step.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes learning to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values to guide meaningful action; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and developing skills to change behavior and emotional responses, which helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns. Mindfulness-based practices teach present-moment awareness and relaxation techniques that reduce physiological arousal and support emotional regulation after trauma or during grief.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica works with each person to explore which strategies fit their goals, preferences, and daily life, and she adjusts methods over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to access regular support without travel. These options allow for consistent skill practice between sessions and scheduling that adapts to work and family demands, helping clients integrate therapeutic tools into everyday routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English