Jessica Edmundson, LPCC

Jessica Edmundson is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with 12 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and stress. Jessica aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people feel heard and can work toward clearer goals.

She uses straightforward, goal-oriented methods to teach coping skills and build motivation. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs and paced so people can make steady progress. Jessica emphasizes empathy and a nonjudgmental approach to help clients open up and take steps forward.

Her background includes work in both in-patient and out-patient settings, which shaped her approach to addiction and trauma care. She often combines cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and acceptance strategies to address thoughts, emotions, and behavior together. Skills training from dialectical behavior therapy is used when people need tools for managing intense emotions.

In sessions she focuses on small, concrete changes - like shifting unhelpful thought patterns, practicing grounding exercises, or building routines that reduce stress. She also supports people facing relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, career challenges, and caregiving stress. Clients may work on improving self-esteem, resolving past hurt, or finding clearer direction after life changes.

Outside of practice she is a wife and mother who enjoys time outdoors and coffee on quiet mornings. Jessica understands how everyday life and responsibilities affect mental health, and she aims to make therapy fit into busy schedules. She offers evening sessions as needed and adapts scheduling when possible.

How Jessica Uses CBT, ACT, and Mindfulness Online

Jessica often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical steps like tracking thoughts, trying small behavioral experiments, and building routines that reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify values and accept difficult emotions while committing to meaningful actions. ACT is useful for coping with long-standing worries, chronic stress, and life changes that don’t fully resolve immediately.

Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to increase present-moment awareness and calm. Simple breathing and grounding practices can help when emotions feel overwhelming and support the skills learned in CBT and ACT.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust methods over time. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize skills training, acceptance work, or reflective conversation.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let for face-to-face conversations and demonstrations of skill work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing coaching, quick skill reminders, and brief reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice new skills where they actually happen.