Jessica Grayer-Brumfield, LCSW, LISW

Jessica Grayer-Brumfield is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a decade of experience helping people navigate stressful life moments. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help clients manage anxiety, depression, grief, and major life transitions. Jessica aims to make sessions feel like a collaborative conversation where the client's goals set the pace.

Jessica draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to focus on strengths, build present-moment awareness, and increase emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit for people who want help finding motivation to make changes.

Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including parenting strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, and career stress. She also supports people dealing with mood disorders, postpartum challenges, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue. Jessica pays attention to how life roles and social factors affect wellbeing.

Sessions are framed as a partnership. Jessica helps clients set clear, achievable goals and practices skills together in session. She describes progress as tied to the work both people do between and during meetings, and adjusts pace to fit each person's needs.

Jessica holds LCSW and LISW credentials and works from Illinois. She communicates plainly, focuses on useful techniques, and encourages patience and persistence as people work toward change.

How Jessica blends approaches in online sessions

Jessica often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thoughts that lead to stress or low mood and practice small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and worry by giving clear steps to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns.

She also uses client-centered therapy to hold a listening space where the client's priorities guide each session. That approach focuses on empathy, building trust, and drawing on a person's own strengths to set goals.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Jessica will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. The plan for therapy evolves based on what works and what the client prefers.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send shorter updates, ask quick questions, or fit conversations into a busy day. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent work and to practice new skills between meetings.